This section summarizes the changes between Oracle VirtualBox versions. Note that this change log is not exhaustive and not all changes are listed.
Oracle VirtualBox version numbers consist of three numbers separated by dots where the first and second number represent the major version and the third number the minor version. Minor version numbers of official releases are always even. An odd minor version number represents an internal development or test build. In addition, each build contains a revision number.
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: Added latest NLS update for Turkish, Indonesian and Italian languages
VMSVGA: Improved flickering, black screen and other screen update issues with recent Linux kernels (bug #21955)
NAT: Fixed issue with restoring 7.0.X saved state
VBoxManage: Fixed breakage of "list vms" and "showvminfo" for inaccessible VMs
Windows host: Fixed system DLL size checking which failed with Windows 11 24H2 and recent Insider Preview builds (bug #22162)
Linux Guest Additions: Introduce initial support for kernel 6.12 (NOTE: In kernel 6.12, KVM initializes virtualization on module loading by default. This prevents VirtualBox VMs from starting. In order to avoid this, either add "kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0" parameter into kernel command line or unload corresponding kvm_XXX module)
Linux/Arm Guest Additions: Added possibility to automatically upgrade Guest Additions via Devices menu
EFI: Added missing LsiLogic MPT SCSI driver again to fix booting from devices attached to this device if the EFI firmware is used (7.1.0 regression)
EFI: Restored broken network boot support (7.1.0 regression)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
GUI: Added multiple window layout and translation related fixes
GUI: Fixed an issue that meant VMs created using Unattended Install were not removed cleanly
GUI: Added an option to change the remote display security method
GUI: Removed the BETA label from the macOS/Arm UI
NAT: Fixed slow performance on Windows host (bugs #22164 and #22180)
NAT: Fixed DHCP problems with certain guests when domain is empty
3D: Fixed enabling 3D acceleration in the VM settings
3D: Fixed black screen with Windows VMs
3D: Fixed rendering issues caused by incorrect view handling
3D: Added possibility to enable 3D acceleration function for Arm platform VMs
GCM: Fixed problem with loading saved state created by 7.0.x
API: Fixed an issue with incorrect handling of NVRAM state with legacy BIOS and its removal on VM deletion
API: Fixed UEFI Secure Boot state querying when the VM was never started
Guest Additions: Fixed error message on automatic upgrading
SDK: Fixed building code using the XPCOM bindings (bug #22174)
This is a major update. The following new features were added:
GUI: Modernized look and feel, offering a selection between Basic and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionality
OCI Integration: Performance dashboard now shows resource usage for cloud VMs
OCI Integration: Clone compute instances
OCI Integration: Reset compute instances
Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack: Update to the PUEL license, removing the evaluation option. For evaluation use of the Extension Pack, please download it from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
VRDE: If user does not set up TLS with custom certificates, enable it with self-signed certificate, including issuing a new one before the old one expires
NAT: New engine with IPv6 support
macOS/Arm host: Arm virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs
Linux host and guest: Added Wayland support for Clipboard sharing (bug #20808)
Shared Clipboard: Added initial support for transferring files on Linux and Windows hosts / guests. This requires the 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed. See User Guide for known limitations
Screen Recording: Significant performance improvements for the encoding pipeline, resulting in less CPU usage while recording is active. This requires 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed on Windows guests
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V is being used (bug #17961)
virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201)
EFI: Ability to add new Microsoft DB/KEX certificates to newly created VMs
Oracle Extension Pack: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support module for full VM encryption
GUI: Improved overall accessibility
GUI: Update the version of Qt used
Unattended Installation: Added support for subiquity- / cloud-init-based installers; this enables installing more modern Linux-based guest OSes in Unattended mode
Unattended Installation: Added support for specifying separate passwords for the user and admin / root accounts
VBoxManage: Added ability to show and (re-)attach to a (video) recording progress of a VM
VBoxManage: Added the ability to query the guest's mount points via a new "mount" Guest Control sub command. Requires at least 7.1 Guest Additions
Python: Our API bindings for Python 2.x is now marked as being deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please upgrade your code to use Python 3
VBoxShell: Lots of smaller and bigger bugfixes + Python 3.x compatibility
To view the change log for a legacy version of VirtualBox see the documentation for the relevant Oracle VirtualBox release.
Change logs are also available at: