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| | 6 | '''!VirtualBox 4.2.8''' (released 2012-02-27)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| | 7 | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| | 8 | * VMM: fixed guest crash with huge amount of guest RAM on VT-x hosts (bug #11306) |
| | 9 | * GUI: fixed a layout bug in the Mac OS X clone VM dialog (bug #10982) |
| | 10 | * GUI: not all the translation tags were taken into account during the language switch (bug #11342) |
| | 11 | * GUI: ''take guest screenshot'' dialog sometimes had no keyboard input available on Windows host |
| | 12 | * Main/Machine: fix generation of spurious event for inaccessible VMs which triggered an endless event generation loop in cooperation with the GUI which became unresponsive (4.2.6 regression, bug #11323) |
| | 13 | * Main/Display: fix for an access violation under certain conditions in multi-monitor configurations (bug #10539) |
| | 14 | * Main/Metrics: network metrics are now collected for active (up) interfaces only, the state of an interface being evaluated when the associated metric is enabled via setupMetrics |
| | 15 | * Snapshots: reduce the time for merging snapshots under certain conditions |
| | 16 | * Storage: fixed data corruption after resizing a VDI image under certain circumstances (bug #11344) |
| | 17 | * Storage: fixed non working online merging of snapshots (4.2.6 regression, bug #11359) |
| | 18 | * Storage: fixed crash when connecting to certain QNAP iSCSI targets |
| | 19 | * Storage: fixed incompatibility of VHD differencing images with Hyper-V (bug #5990) |
| | 20 | * Bridged Networking: fixed TCP pseudo header checksum computation for IPv6 (bug #9380) |
| | 21 | * 3D support: fix Battlefield 1942 game crashes (bug #11369) |
| | 22 | * Settings: really sanitize the name of VM folders and settings file, the code was disabled before (bug #10549) |
| | 23 | * Settings: allow to change VRDE settings for saved VMs |
| | 24 | * VBoxManage: don't crash during ''screenshotpng'' if there is no display (bug #11363) |
| | 25 | * Linux hosts: work around gcc bug 55940 which might lead to wrong kernel module code if gcc 4.7 is used to compile the 32-bit Linux host kernel (bug #11035) |
| | 26 | * Linux hosts: fixed inconsistent lock state and deadlock warnings on module load and VM startup when ''CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING'' is enabled (bug #11318) |
| | 27 | * Linux hosts: made "]" key work again on Japanese keyboards |
| | 28 | * Mac OS X hosts: don't crash the kernel during dtrace if the VBox kernel extensions are loaded (10.6 hosts only; bug #11273) |
| | 29 | * Solaris / Mac OS X hosts: machine CPU load metrics now report 100% when all cores are fully utilized (used to be a single core) |
| | 30 | * Solaris 11 host installer: wait for any services left over from a previous installation to be terminated to avoid confusing SMF. |
| | 31 | * Guest Additions: don't block signals for processes executed via guest control |
| | 32 | * Guest Additions: fixed a small memory leak in VBoxService (bug #10970) |
| | 33 | * Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issue with large reads/writes on 64 bit Windows guests (bug #11115) |
| | 34 | * Linux Additions: added auto-logon support for Linux guests using LightDM as the display manager |
| | 35 | * Linux Additions: Linux 3.8 compile fixes (bug #11036) |
| | 36 | * X11 Additions: fixed blocked ''SIGALRM'' in 3D desktop sessions (bug #10987) |
| | 37 | * X11 Additions: fixed an unresolved reference in vboxvideo_drv for X.org 6.8 guests and before (e.g. RHEL4; 4.2.0 regression) |
| | 38 | * X11 Additions: fixed screen automatic resizing for guests with X.org 1.3 or older (4.2.0 regression) |
