[vbox-dev] Announcement: VirtualBox 5.1.24 released

[Klaus Espenlaub]

Hi Stéphane,

please retry. The update notifier is always updated last by the release 
engineer (can be a while after the announcements), and this time it was 
just set. Doing a release needs a non-negligible amount of time, and we 
have to be super careful with timing with the quarterly CPU. Which 
effectively adds delays.

The checksum failures turned out to be release engineer error (of the 
very non-obvious kind): the SHA256SUMS file on the server was created 
with the wrong 'flavor'. Don't ask me why this silliness of checksumming 
in text or binary mode has been kept until today. In our case the 
checksums are always the same, but the GUI code in VirtualBox turned out 
to be super picky (which normally is a good thing).

For 5.1.24 the release engineer was me...

Klaus

On 18.07.2017 19:10, Stéphane Charette wrote:
> It seems that 5.1.22 does not see 5.1.24 as a newer version:
>
>
> ​
> So I manually updated to 5.1.24, but it looks like something is wrong 
> with the guest additions in 5.1.24:
>
>
> Stéphane
> ​
>
> On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 4:30 AM, Klaus Espenlaub 
> <klaus.espenlaub at oracle.com <mailto:klaus.espenlaub at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     today Oracle released VirtualBox 5.1.24, a maintenance release of
>     VirtualBox 5.1 which improves stability and fixes regressions.
>
>     See the Changelog at
>
>     https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog
>     <https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog>
>
>     for a complete list of all changes.
>
>     You can download the binaries here:
>
>     https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
>     <https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads>
>
>     Kind regards,
>
>     Klaus
>

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