[vbox-dev] Announcement: VirtualBox 3.1 Beta 3 released

[Frank Mehnert]

Please do not use this VirtualBox Beta release on production machines.
A VirtualBox Beta release should be considered a bleeding-edge release
meant for early evaluation and testing purposes.

You can download the binaries here:

  http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.1.0_BETA3/

Please do NOT open bug reports at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Bugtracker
but use our 'VirtualBox Beta Feedback' forum at

  http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewforum.php?f=15

to report any problems with the Beta. See the 3.1.0 Beta 3 forum
announcement for some more information:

  http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=25039

Notable changes since version 3.1.0 Beta 2:

 * VMM: fixes slow OpenSolaris booting (3.1.0 Beta 1 regression)
 * GUI: prevent hints being send for guest-initiated resizes
 * GUI: fix for saved mouse shape data which was incorrectly updated
 * Xml compatibility fixes with 3.0.x (CpuIdTree element)
 * Storage/VMDK: fix buffers for really huge VMDK files split into
   2G pieces
 * EFI: added 64-bit firmware
 * 2D support: Saved state save/restore fixes
 * 2D support: fixed VM reset issues
 * Snapshots: suppresses the automatic resetting of immutable disk
   images on VM power-up if the machine has snapshots AND the current
   snapshot is an online snapshot, to avoid data corruption (the machine
   would otherwise be reset to a state which is equivalent of a poweroff
   of a running machine without a proper shutdown)
 * Guest Additions: fixed a rare guest crash with 2 or more guest CPUs
 * Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS
   information
 * Windows Additions: disabled some debug output
 * Linux Additions: fixed guests with Linux 2.4 kernels
 * Linux Additions: removed debugging symbols to save space
   (3.1.0 Beta 2 regression)
 * X11 Additions: fixed a bug which re-enabled the graphics (and
   dynamic resizing) capability when disabling seamless
 * X11 Additions: added more default resolutions for old guests
 * X11 Additions: workaround a bug in X.Org 1.3 which caused dynamic
   resizing to fail

See the ChangeLog in the 3.1 Beta 1 announcement

  http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=24458

for a more complete list of all changes since version 3.0.12.

Kind regards,

Frank
-- 
Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert

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