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| 6 | '''!VirtualBox 4.3.8''' (released 2014-02-25)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| 7 | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| 8 | * VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers (e.g. bugs #12224, #12544) |
| 9 | * VMM: fixed a ''VERR_INVALID_RPL'' Guru Meditation when booting certain guests (bug #11350) |
| 10 | * VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see the manual for more information how to enable it (bug #8651) |
| 11 | * VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization |
| 12 | * GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see the manual for more information |
| 13 | * GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and the user tries to activate the remote display feature (bug #9104) |
| 14 | * GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in fullscreen/seamless mode) keeps the minimized state (bug #12199) |
| 15 | * GUI: popup banner's "do not show this message again" check-box replaced with corresponding button |
| 16 | * GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar indicator |
| 17 | * GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types (bug #12533) |
| 18 | * GUI: better error message if appliance import fails (bug #12657) |
| 19 | * GUI: allow to set host-combination to 'None' using the Global settings / Input page (bug #12730) |
| 20 | * GUI: don't switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot merge (4.3 regression) |
| 21 | * VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported several times |
| 22 | * AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances |
| 23 | * AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain circumstances |
| 24 | * AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417) |
| 25 | * AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions |
| 26 | * AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions |
| 27 | * AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes |
| 28 | * NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used (bug #12441) |
| 29 | * NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with ICMP packets having TTL=1 |
| 30 | * NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly |
| 31 | * NAT Network: ping proxy implemented |
| 32 | * OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element (4.3 regression; bug #12345) |
| 33 | * OVF: several fixes |
| 34 | * 3D: several fixes, multiscreen fixes (e.g. bug #9124) |
| 35 | * 3D: include 3D content in captured videos (bug #12666) |
| 36 | * 3D: include 3D content in captured screenshot (bug #11758) |
| 37 | * VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest Additions are active (bug #6649) |
| 38 | * USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare circumstances |
| 39 | * BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives |
| 40 | * API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only (bug #11232) |
| 41 | * VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events (see the manual for more information) and added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low event (bug #9925) |
| 42 | * VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups (bug #12569) |
| 43 | * VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in /bin (bug #12713) |
| 44 | * Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders when starting a VM from a saved state (bug #12578) |
| 45 | * Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network (bug #12241) |
| 46 | * Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining the number of physical CPU cores |
| 47 | * Linux hosts / guests: don't warn in kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171) |
| 48 | * Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script (bug #11720) |
| 49 | * Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar environment contents (bug #12596) |
| 50 | * Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables (relevant for Guest Control) |
| 51 | * Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray (bug #12563) |
| 52 | * Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users |
| 53 | * Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on XPDM -> WDDM upgrade |
| 54 | * Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables |
| 55 | * Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels (bug #12505) |
| 56 | * Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels |
| 57 | * Linux / Solaris Additions: don't automount a shared folder which is already mounted |
| 58 | * X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15 (bug #12623) |