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| 3 | '''!VirtualBox 4.0.8''' (released 2011-08-16)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 4 | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 5 | * Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474) |
| 6 | * Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more than 16 cores (bug #8389) |
| 7 | * Mac OS X hosts: fixed painting corruptions on a second monitor in 64-bit mode (bug #7606) |
| 8 | * GUI: restored functionality to set an empty host key to disallow any host key combination (4.0.6 regression; bug #8793) |
| 9 | * VBoxManage: added ''controlvm screenshotpng'' subcommand for saving the screenshot of a running VM in PNG format |
| 10 | * VBoxHeadless: fixed potential crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only) |
| 11 | * NAT: built-in services use the correct Ethernet addresses in Ethernet header and in ARP requests |
| 12 | * Host-only networking: fixed adapter reference counting |
| 13 | * E1000: fixed rare guest crashes with Linux SMP guests (bug #8755) |
| 14 | * SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances (only relevant for guests with more than 2GB RAM; bug #8826) |
| 15 | * Storage: fixed data corruption after a snapshot was taken with asynchronous I/O enabled (bug #8498) |
| 16 | * Floppy: several improvement |
| 17 | * HPET: another fix for time jumps (bug #8707) |
| 18 | * USB: removed assumption that string descriptors are null-terminated (Windows hosts only) |
| 19 | * 3D support: fixed a potential crash when resizing the guest window |
| 20 | * 3D support: fixed GNOME 3 rendering under Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15 |
| 21 | * Snapshots: fixed another bug which could lose entries in the media registry when restoring a snapshot (bug #8363) |
| 22 | * Shared Folders: don't stop mounting the other valid folders if one host folder is inaccessible (4.0.6 regression) |
| 23 | * Linux Additions: check whether gcc and make are installed before building kernel modules (bug #8795) |
| 24 | * Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10 |
| 25 | * Guest Additions: fixed inappropriate Guest Additions update notification when using vendor-specific version suffixes (bug #8844) |