[vbox-dev] Announcement: VirtualBox 5.2.16 released

[Sérgio Basto]

On Mon, 2018-07-23 at 09:36 +0000, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
> Hello, 
> 
> > As I'm a packager and part of one Linux distribution (Fedora / EPEL
> > 7),
> > I'm curious, if we have any change to do ? or what we have new ? or
> > what changed ? 
> 
> 
> 1) a build fix I had to do in Debian is now upstream
> https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-virtualbox-team/virtualbox/blob/3b2e9ba9
> 9a6ded010e662add9a2db408881b0f1c/debian/patches/fix-build.patch
> 
> 2) an issue wrt new stable binutils (commit 
> 451875b4f976a527395e9303224c7881b65e12ed)
> 
> this broke virtualbox, patch is in 5.2.16
> https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-virtualbox-team/virtualbox/blob/3b2e9ba9
> 9a6ded010e662add9a2db408881b0f1c/debian/patches/plt-upstream-
> fix.patch
> 
> 3) libopus detection to enable videorec with system libopus in OSE
> mode
> https://salsa.debian.org/pkg-virtualbox-team/virtualbox/blob/3b2e9ba9
> 9a6ded010e662add9a2db408881b0f1c/debian/patches/videorec.patch
> 
> 
> and probably something more is coming, e.g. a build fix with
> python3.7, some new java fixes, detection for gcc 8
> (you can already find patches on Debian git)
> 

Thanks! all is working good.


> cheers,
> 
> Gianfranco
-- 
Sérgio M. B.