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    1 = Changelog for VirtualBox 4.3 =
     1= Changelog for VirtualBox 5.0 =
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    33This page lists all changes of the !VirtualBox 4.3 '''[wiki:Downloads releases]'''.[[BR]]
    4 All branches: [wiki:Changelog 4.3] · [wiki:Changelog-4.2 4.2] · [wiki:Changelog-4.1 4.1] · [wiki:Changelog-4.0 4.0] · [wiki:Changelog-3.2 3.2] · [wiki:Changelog-3.1 3.1] · [wiki:Changelog-3.0 3.0] · [wiki:Changelog-2.2 2.2] · [wiki:Changelog-2.1 2.1] · [wiki:Changelog-2.0 2.0] · [wiki:Changelog-1.6 1.6]
     4All branches: [wiki:Changelog 5.0] · [wiki:Changelog-4.3 4.3] · [wiki:Changelog-4.2 4.2] · [wiki:Changelog-4.1 4.1] · [wiki:Changelog-4.0 4.0] · [wiki:Changelog-3.2 3.2] · [wiki:Changelog-3.1 3.1] · [wiki:Changelog-3.0 3.0] · [wiki:Changelog-2.2 2.2] · [wiki:Changelog-2.1 2.1] · [wiki:Changelog-2.0 2.0] · [wiki:Changelog-1.6 1.6]
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    6 '''!VirtualBox 4.3.28''' (released 2015-05-13)[[BR]][[BR]]
    7 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    8  * VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation when rebooting certain guests (for example Solaris doing fast reboot) by fixing the implementation for INIT IPI
    9  * VMM: added some information for diagnosing rare ''VERR_VMX_INVALID_VMXON_PTR'' Guru Meditations (VT-x only)
    10  * GUI: HID LEDs sync: prevent synchronization if VM window has no focus (Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)
    11  * GUI: fixed drag and drop moving the cursor between guest screens on certain hosts
    12  * 3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state on X11 hosts (bug #12737)
    13  * 3D: fixed a crash on Linux guest shutdown (bug #12772)
    14  * VRDP: fixed incompatibility with rdesktop 1.8.3
     6'''!VirtualBox 5.0''' (released 2015-07-09)[[BR]][[BR]]
     7This is a major update. The following major new features were added:
     8 * Paravirtualization support for Windows and Linux guests to improve time-keeping accuracy and performance (see the manual for more information)
     9 * Make more instruction set extensions available to the guest when running with hardware-assisted virtualization and nested paging. Among others this includes: SSE 4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX-2, AES-NI, ''POPCNT'', ''RDRAND'' and ''RDSEED''
     10 * xHCI Controller to support USB 3 devices (see the manual for more information)
     11 * Drag and drop support (bidirectional) for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
     12 * Disk image encryption (see the manual for more information)
     13 * VMs can now be started in separate mode. The VM process is started headless while the frontend runs as a separate process which can be terminated without stopping the VM.
     14 * GUI: VM guest-content scaling support (including 3D acceleration)
     15 * GUI: New User Interface settings page for customizing status-bar, menu-bar and guest-content scaling
     16 * GUI: New Encryption settings tab for customizing encryption options for disk images
     17 * GUI: HiDPI support including application icons and optional unscaled HiDPI output on Mac OS X (including 3D acceleration)
     18 * GUI: Hotplugging support for SATA disks
     19 * New, modular audio architecture for providing a better abstraction of the host audio backends
     20 * Support for the NDIS6 networking framework on Windows (default on Vista and later)
     21In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
     22 * VMM: improved timing on Solaris hosts with older VT-x hosts without preemption timers
     23 * VMM: further improvements for TSC frequency measurements and guest timekeeping
     24 * VMM: debug facility now includes the guest CPU's FPU/SSE/extended state in the core dump
     25 * VMM: fixed a hang under rare conditions on 32-bit hosts
     26 * VMM: several fixes
     27 * GUI: improved HID LEDs synchronization for Mac and Windows hosts. The physical LEDs state now restored together with the VM state.
     28 * GUI: take the guest screen aspect ratio into account for the preview window
     29 * GUI: provide direct access to storage media in the VM selector
     30 * GUI: allow to save the VM state from the selector even if the VM is already paused
     31 * 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
     32 * VBoxManage: now supports renaming storage controllers and USB controllers
     33 * Guest Control: major overhaul, for example fixing wrong parameter quoting (bug #13157)
     34 * USB: added USB traffic capturing (see the manual for more information)
     35 * Made resizing X11 guests work more reliably
     36 * API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks, their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM config corruption
     37 * API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense
     38 * API: fix information for some automatically generated events (only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice (bug #12379)
     39 * API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)
     40 * API: a number of settings (e.g. network settings) can now also be changed when the VM is in saved state
     41 * API: fixed incorrect resuming of VMs on host-resume unless they were previously paused due to a host-suspend
     42 * API: don't lose the saved state and "current state changed" flag during cloning of a VM
     43 * API: OS type description consistency fix (bug #14162)
     44 * VBoxSVC: don't keep the support driver permanently open
     45 * Main/Properties: properly drop transient guest properties when the VM is powered off
     46 * VRDP: fixed a couple of races which may cause a crash during VM poweroff
     47 * ExtPack: don't fail if the TMP directory contains non-latin1 characters (bug #14159)
     48 * 3D: fix potential race in which might cause a crash on VM termination
     49 * 3D: fixed a possible memory leak in the host service
     50 * Serial: new TCP/IP backend (see the manual for more information)
     51 * Storage: added USB mass storage device class (see the manual for more information)
     52 * Storage: added vbox-img standalone tool for direct manipulation of virtual hard disk images without VBoxManage
     53 * Storage: fixed crash as a result of I/O errors in certain conditions (bug #13105)
     54 * NAT: fixed several potential crashes
     55 * NAT: don't forcibly reset/drop all connections when the link goes down
     56 * Netsniffer: properly handle changing of the trace file name at VM runtime
     57 * Audio: fixed audio output and input when changing the default audio device more than once on OS X
     58 * Audio: fixed audio input on OS X under certain circumstances
     59 * ICH9: fixed the interrupt disable logic for MSI interrupts; should fix old Linux guests with AHCI
     60 * USB: improve playback with USB sound devices attached to the emulated OHCI controller
     61 * Audio: provide Linux guests a different AC97 audio codec type so Linux ALSA does not mis-detect the link speed (default for new VMs)
     62 * BIOS: fix for booting from SCSI CD/DVD media
     63 * BIOS: fix for reads partially beyond end of disk (bug #14021)
    1564 * VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038)
    16  * Storage: don't crash if creating an asynchronous I/O context fails (e.g. when starting many VMs) and show a proper error message
    17  * Floppy: several fixes
    18  * Audio: improved the behavior of the volume control for the HD audio device emulation
    19  * USB: increase the number of supported drivers from 3 to 5 (Windows hosts only)
    20  * PS/2 keyboard: synchronize the LED state on VM restore (Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)
    21  * NAT Network: when running multiple NAT networks with multiple VMs, only stop the respective services when stopping VMs (bug #14090)
    22  * NAT: don't kill UDP bindings on ICMP errors (bug #13475)
    23  * NAT: bandwidth limit now works properly with NAT (bug #11485)
    24  * BIOS: fixed the returned size value of the VBE 2.0 PMI function 0Ah (4.2.0 regression; bug #14096)
    25  * Guest Control: fixed parameter quoting in Windows guests (bug #13157)
    26  * Webcam passthrough improvements for Linux (V4L2) hosts to support more webcam models
    27  * API: don't fail starting a VM with ''VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE'' under certain conditions (bug #13617)
    28  * API: be more verbose on ''VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE'' if a medium is attached to a running VM (bug #13560)
    29  * API: fixed a bug which could result in losing certain screen resize events with multi-monitor guests
    30  * rdesktop-vrdp: fixed path to the keymaps (bug #12066)
    31  * rdesktop-vrdp: switch to version 1.8.3
    32  * Windows hosts: more hardening fixes (e.g. bugs #14051, #14052)
    33  * Linux hosts: another fix for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19 and newer (Broadwell and later; bug #13961)
    34  * Linux hosts: Linux 4.1 compile fix (bug #14081)
    35  * Solaris hosts: fixed using of VNIC templates with Crossbow based bridged networking to be compatible with vanity interface names
    36  * Mac OS X hosts: fixed crash during VM termination under rare circumstances
     65 * rdesktop-vrdp: upgraded to version 1.8.3
     66 * Linux hosts: fixed a bug which made the netfilter driver ignore certain events (bug #12264)
     67 * Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan fixes
     68 * Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug which might trigger a host kernel panic if a VM is started and another hypervisor is active
     69 * Solaris hosts: Solaris 12 installer fix
     70 * Guest Additions: added a heartbeat service (see the manual for more information)
     71 * Linux hosts / guests: support for Linux distributions using systemd without sysv emulation (e.g. ArchLinux)
    3772 * Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and allow more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI)
    38  * X11 Additions: prevent flickering when updating mouse cursor
    39  * Solaris Additions: fixed incorrect usage of 'prtconf' while installing Guest Additions (Solaris 10 only)
    40 
    41 '''!VirtualBox 4.3.26''' (released 2015-03-16)[[BR]][[BR]]
    42 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    43  * GUI: in the snapshots pane, protect the age of snapshots against wrong host time (bug #13955)
    44  * NAT Network: fixed a bug which prevented to propagate any DNS name server / domain / search string information to the NAT network (4.3.24 regression; bugs #13915, #13918)
    45  * NAT Network: don't delay the shutdown of VBoxSVC on Windows hosts
    46  * Mouse support: the mouse could not be moved under rare conditions if no Guest Additions are installed (4.3.24 regression; bug #13935)
    47  * Storage: if the guest ejects a virtual CD/DVD medium, make the change permanent (bugs #9858, #12885)
    48  * VGA: made saving secondary screen sizes possible in X11 guests
    49  * SDK: fixed the !VirtualBox.tlb file (4.3.20 regression; bug #13943)
    50  * rdesktop-vrdp: make it work with USB devices again (4.3.14 regression; bug #13901)
    51  * USB: fixed a possible BSOD on Windows hosts under rare conditions
    52  * iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628)
    53  * Mac OS X hosts: don't panic on hosts with activated SMAP (Broadwell and later; bug #13951)
    54  * Linux hosts: don't crash Linux 4.0 hosts (bug #13835)
    55 
    56 '''!VirtualBox 4.3.24''' (released 2015-03-02)[[BR]][[BR]]
    57 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    58  * VMM: emulation fix for the ''ENTER'' instruction under certain conditions; fixes Solaris 10 guests (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution)
    59  * VMM: fix for handling NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled
    60  * NAT/NAT Network: fix connection drops when the host's DHCP lease was renewed (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #13839)
    61  * NAT: don't crash on an empty domain list when switching the DNS host configuration (4.3.22 regression; Mac OS X hosts only; bug #13874)
    62  * PXE: re-enable it on Windows hosts (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #13842)
    63  * Shared Folders: fixed a problem with Windows guests (4.3.22 regression; bug #13786)
    64  * Audio: improved record quality when using the DirectSound audio backend
    65  * VBoxManage: when executing the ''controlvm'' command take care that the corresponding VM runtime changes are saved permanently (bug #13892)
    66  * Windows Installer: properly install the 32-bit version of VBoxRes.dll on 32-bit hosts (bug #13876)
    67  * Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.0 fixes (bug #13835)
    68  * OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse integration (4.3.22 regression; bug #13825)
    69  * X11 Additions: fixed a sporadic failure to deactivate virtual screens (bug #13845)
    70 
    71 '''!VirtualBox 4.3.22''' (released 2015-02-12)[[BR]][[BR]]
    72 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    73  * VMM: refined measurement of TSC frequency on the host, improves timekeeping for guests
    74  * VMM: decreased CPU load resulting from guest MMIO writes to the virtual APIC
    75  * VMM: fixed interception of debug exceptions, observed while using the dbx debugger on Solaris guests (VT-x only)
    76  * GUI: 3D overlay window positioning code improved, fixed potential misplacement of 3D accelerated guest graphics content
    77  * GUI: fixed accident SSL authentication failures during update check on Windows hosts (bug #12969)
    78  * GUI: never send the "ACPI power" keyboard scancode to the guest, we have the ACPI power button for that
    79  * GUI: was unable to properly restore seamless mode VM from snapshot/saved-state under some circumstances
    80  * VBoxHeadless: don't crash if 3D is enabled in the VM settings (bug #10250)
    81  * ATA: fixed several passthrough issues (bugs #12310, #1360)
    82  * Audio: fixed DirectSound failure when the the host has no audio input device (Windows hosts only; bug #9205)
    83  * SB16: fixed compatibility issue (bug #13769)
    84  * Storage: fixed broken CD/DVD passthrough when using the IDE controller (bug #12310)
    85  * NAT: new ping proxy for Windows hosts (bug #11871)
    86  * NAT: Properly report outbound connect(2) failures to guest with TCP RST or ICMP (bug #10525)
    87  * NAT Network: no need for frequent wakeups in VBoxNetDHCP and VBoxNetNAT (bug #11681)
    88  * Host-only adapter: prevent Windows from creating an "Unidentified network" (bug #9688)
    89  * Bridged Networking: don't leak host-to-guest traffic to the wireless network when bridging to a wireless interface (bug #13714)
    90  * Main: fixed a possible race when changing the medium leading to a deadlock under rare conditions (bug #13722)
    91  * VBoxManage: fixed return code if starting a VM failed (bug #13773)
    92  * Settings: on Windows host, do not use environment variable HOME at all, the settings location is derived from the user profile directory (bug #7689)
    93  * API: fixed 2 deadlock opportunities related to medium handling (bugs #13789, #13801, thank you Alexander Urakov)
    94  * API: fixed bug in XPCOM which created too few worker threads, sporadically resulting in a deadlock (bug #13802, thank you Alexander Urakov)
    95  * SDK: fixed a garbage collection leak in the Python !VirtualBox webservice API binding (bug #13817)
    96  * Linux hosts: fixes for activated SMAP (Broadwell and later, bug #13820)
    97  * X11 guests: prevent unwanted hiding of guest screens on multi-monitor guests (bug #13287)
    98  * X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.17
    99  * X11 Additions: fixed a memory leak in VBoxService if libdbus is available but dbus-daemon isn't running (bug #13770)
    100  * Windows Additions: prevent VBox WDDM driver from loading if host reports weak OpenGL capabilities. 3D content now can be shown over Remote Desktop connection.
    101  * Windows Additions: some fixes for recent Windows 10 Previews
    102  * Linux Additions: fixed a compatibility issue with 64-bit Linux 2.4 kernels
    103  * Linux Additions: fixed a potential use-after-free when unloading the VBoxGuest module
    104  * Linux Additions: Linux 3.19 fixes (bug #13741)
    105 
    106 '''!VirtualBox 4.3.20''' (released 2014-11-21)[[BR]][[BR]]
    107 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    108  * VMM: fixed reboot hang of 32-bit Windows SMP guests (bug #13319, #13462)
    109  * VMM: proper Math Fault handling with certain legacy guests (bug #9042, AMD hosts)
    110  * VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation ''VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT'' on older CPUs that don't support MSR-bitmaps (VT-x only; bugs #13034, #13125, #13311, #13425, #13426, #13463, #13585)
    111  * GUI: fix 3D overlay window re-parenting issue when VM goes to full screen mode on X11 hosts.
    112  * GUI: fix occasional loss of focus in full-screen mode on X11 host systems (4.3.16 regression)
    113  * GUI: Mac OS X: wizards should have Cancel button (bug #12541)
    114  * GUI: added a global option to prevent automatic raising of the new window by mouse move with multi-screen guests (bug #8878)
    115  * API: accept remote display port 0 as the default RDP port (bug #8534)
    116  * VBoxManage: fixed crash when executing ''showvminfo'' command under certain circumstances (bug #13190)
    117  * ACPI: fixed occasional Guru Meditations in ACPI timer code (4.3.18 regression; bug #13521)
    118  * EFI: improved performance of IDE disk access
    119  * EFI: fixed a bug in the EFI video driver which prevented Windows to boot in UEFI mode (bug #12022)
    120  * EFI: properly announce the amount of RAM for big VMs (bugs #11103 and #13211)
    121  * Storage: fixed a crash under certain circumstances when a medium was ejected from a drive attached to the SATA controller without inserting a new medium before pausing or closing the VM (4.3.16 regression)
    122  * Storage: fixed an interrupt acknowledge issue causing hanging guests or slower I/O (4.3.18 regression)
    123  * Storage: fixed broken resume after the VM was suspended due to a full disk if host I/O caching is used
    124  * Storage: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions when using the DevLsiLogic controller with VMs running in raw mode (4.3 regression; bugs #12254, #12655, #12709, #12774, #12886)
    125  * Guest Control: fixed a bug which might lead to a crash during recursive copy
    126  * SDK: Java COM bindings fixes
    127  * iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol (bug #13628)
    128  * Runtime: do not use a fixed stack size creating temporary threads during initialization (bug #13038)
    129  * Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)
    130  * Windows hosts: fixed DirectSound host audio failure under certain conditions (bug #13418)
    131  * Windows hosts: fixed additional cases of 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216)
    132  * Windows Additions: preserve guest monitor layout when resizing Windows 7 or newer guests
    133  * Linux Additions: Linux 3.18 compile fixes (bug #13515)
    134 
    135 '''!VirtualBox 4.3.18''' (released 2014-10-10)[[BR]][[BR]]
    136 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    137  * VMM: fixed a potential misbehavior after restoring the A20 state from a saved state
    138  * GUI: fixed full-screen mode mini-toolbar related regressions for different platforms and window managers (bug #13369)
    139  * GUI: X11: fixed full-screen mode Unity panels quirk caused by mini-toolbar code changes in last release (bug #13365)
    140  * GUI: X11: added possibility to use legacy full-screen mode as the new one can cause multi-screen issues under Unity, see the manual for more information (bug #13365)
    141  * GUI: Mac OS X: fixed full-screen mode artifact causing black screen when 3D acceleration was enabled on 10.10 Yosemite hosts (bug #13448)
    142  * GUI: Mac OS X: fixed regression in user-space swiping from/to VBox in full-screen mode
    143  * GUI: Mac OS X: fixed issue with switching to VBox in full-screen mode through Alt+Tab and Mission Control
    144  * Storage: fixed data corruption when resizing huge VHD images under certain circumstances (bug #11960)
    145  * Storage: fixed a rare hang during startup when the BIOS enumerates the storage devices attached to the SATA controller
    146  * Storage: follow the spec with AHCI interrupt acknowledge (bug #13474)
    147  * Storage: fixed broken iSCSI authentication (4.3.14 regression, bugs #13386, #13435)
    148  * NAT Network: properly parse port forwarding rules to allow UDP rules
    149  * USB: fixed a crash on Linux hosts with older Linux kernels (bug #13400) and several other fixes
    150  * ACPI: fixed ACPI timer anomalies (bug #12076)
    151  * Guest Control: fixed a memory leak (bug #13434)
    152  * Main: when removing a VM, do also remove the VBoxStartup.log file which might exist on Windows hosts (bug #13478)
    153  * Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)
    154  * Windows hosts: propagate the process startup information to the child process (4.3.14 regression; bug #13243)
    155  * Mac OS X hosts: don't force using the discrete GPU (bug #11111)
    156  * Windows Additions: some Windows 10 tweaks
    157  * X11 guests: fix a bug handling video driver display properties which prevented GNOME Shell on Fedora 21 from starting
    158  * Linux hosts / guests: fixed a few remaining warnings in the kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)
    159 
    160 '''!VirtualBox 4.3.16''' (released 2014-09-09)[[BR]][[BR]]
    161 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    162  * VMM: fixed restoring 32-bit FPU state on 64-bit capable VMs and restoring guest FPU in raw-mode VMs (bug #12646; 4.3 regression)
    163  * GUI: properly restore normal/scale mode guest-screen size after exiting full-screen/seamless mode
    164  * GUI: mini-toolbar should provoke less artifacts/conflicts with 3D guest rendering
    165  * GUI: Mac OS X: Native full-screen multi-screen transition was able to blackout host-screens for nearly minute
    166  * GUI: X11: Modern window managers should now use native full-screen multi-screen mapping API
    167  * GUI: added extradata item for configuring the mouse capture behavior, see the manual for more information (bug #3506)
    168  * Storage: fixed a VBoxSVC crash when querying an iSCSI target with authentication configured (4.3.14 regression)
    169  * Storage: fixed a rare data corruption during reads if another allocating write is running concurrently and accesses the same range
    170  * Storage: fixed a rare crash for certain VHD images from other products
    171  * Storage: fixed a rare release assertion when using the AHCI controller
    172  * Floppy: fixed read errors and guest memory corruption when running under control of QEMM
    173  * 3D: added experimental support for rendering on offline GPUs for Mac OS X host
    174  * 3D: fixed white window appearing on entering the full screen mode on OSX host
    175  * 3D: fixed video recording support for 3D data regression (bug #13073)
    176  * 3D: fixes for MS Office 2013 support
    177  * 3D: several fixes
    178  * Bridged Networking: improved IPv6 support when bridging to a wireless interface
    179  * NAT: prevent internal DNS service from stuck in host-resolver mode when host was switched from one network to another one while host was sleeping (Mac OS X hosts)
    180  * NAT: preserve DF (if possible) and TOS when proxying outbound UDP datagrams (bugs #9440, #12309)
    181  * NAT: don't let multicast datagrams out (bug #7338)
    182  * NAT: fixed handling of large incoming UDP datagrams on Windows hosts (bug #12136)
    183  * NAT: fixed handling of the RFC 1533 DHCP PAD option
    184  * NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Windows hosts
    185  * NAT Network: preserve IPv4 DF (if possible), TTL, TOS and IPv6 Hop Limit when proxying outbound UDP datagrams
    186  * VRDP: fixed a rare crash when using remote audio input
    187  * USB: fixed several regressions from 4.3.14 (bug #13320)
    188  * Audio: made the HDA sound emulation work with certain OSX guests (e.g. Mountain Lion)
    189  * '''Windows hosts: fixed startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software (4.3.14 regression, bug #13187)'''
    190  * Windows hosts: fixed 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216)
    191  * X11 hosts: made the extra key on Brazilian Thinkpads work (bug #8745)
    192  * X11 hosts: fixed a problem of input focus cycles and immediately released key presses in full screen mode (bug #13238)
    193  * Linux hosts: fixed flooding the kernel log with USB related messages when passing through certain USB devices to a VM (bug #13085)
    194  * Linux guests: stop applications crashing when ''drm_wait_vblank'' is called (bug #13265)
    195  * Linux guests: fix a crash in gnome-session (bug #13335)
    196  * X11 guests: do not start VBoxClient over an SSH connection (bug #13107)
    197  * X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.16 (bug #13207)
    198  * X11 guests: fixed a wrong parameter in the video driver which caused problems with full-screen X11 clients (bug #2748)
    199  * VirtualKD: introduced stub/loader device for speeding up Windows kernel debugging, details see http://virtualkd.sysprogs.org/
    200 
    201 '''!VirtualBox 4.3.14''' (released 2014-07-15)[[BR]][[BR]]
    202 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    203  * VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (bugs #12784, #12949, #13034)
    204  * VMM: improve MSI handling under rare circumstances (only relevant for the ICH9 chipset)
    205  * VMM: fixed #UD exception for 64-bit guests with the ''EFER.SCE'' bit and the ''SYSCALL'' instruction (VT-x only; 4.3 regression; bug #13008)
    206  * VMM: fixed timekeeping after resuming SMP guests
    207  * VMM: properly wake up a halted VCPU on NMI/SMI
    208  * GUI: fixed a potential crash
    209  * GUI: fixed stuck AltGr key on Windows hosts (bug #2537)
    210  * GUI: fixed a potential error during the version check
    211  * GUI: shortcut change should not require Enter/Return (or other trigger) to confirm (bugs #12828, #12847, #12937, #13087)
    212  * GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the location of the root certificates (bug #13096)
    213  * VBoxManage: fixed typo in ''showvminfo --machinereadable'' (bug #13176)
    214  * NAT: fixed inbound half-close (bug #13116)
    215  * NAT: fixed slow upload speed under certain conditions (bug #10034)
    216  * NAT Network: fixed potential loss of inbound TCP data
    217  * NAT Network: fixed potential infinite stalls of TCP connections over IPv6
    218  * NAT Network: fixed resets of TCP connections on Windows hosts
    219  * NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Mac OS X hosts
    220  * NAT Network: fixed socket leak on Solaris hosts
    221  * NAT Network: fixed ping of mapped host loopback on Mac OS X and Solaris hosts, fixed proxying of IMCP errors on Mac OS X
    222  * Host-Only Network: fixed SNMP ''ifConnectorPresent'' value on Windows (bug #13143)
    223  * Storage: fixed a possible crash with CD/DVD passthrough under certain circumstances
    224  * Storage: fixed a crash when trying to open an inaccessible QED or QCOW image (bug #12613)
    225  * Storage: fixed data corruption or read errors under rare circumstances
    226  * AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances
    227  * USB: performance fixes
    228  * ICH9: properly reset MSI capability on reset
    229  * Keyboard: active modifier keys during suspend were stuck after resuming the host
    230  * 3D: fixed misbehavior with huge guests (i.e. guest more than 4GB guest memory
    231  * 3D: several fixes
    232  * API: properly detect the Windows 8.1 guest OS type (bug #13090)
    233  * ExtPack: cleanup of dangling uninstallation directories
    234  * Linux hosts / guests: compile fix for EL7 (bug #12638)
    235  * Linux Additions: made 3D pass-through work with recent versions of Mesa in the guest (bug #12941)
    236  * Linux Additions: Linux 3.16 fixes (bug #13123)
    237  * Mac OS X hosts: when scanning for host CD/DVD devices also consider BlueRay devices
    238  * OS/2 Additions: fixed gengradd.dll library name (bug #12785)
    239  * Solaris Additions: fixed permissions of files and directories located on shared folders
    240  * Windows host installer: fixed the need for rebooting Windows after installation or upgrade, extended logging for NetFlt/NetAdp (un)installation
    241 
    242 '''!VirtualBox 4.3.12''' (released 2014-05-16)[[BR]][[BR]]
    243 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    244  * VMM: fixed an occasional Guru Meditation (Mac OS X hosts only; bugs #12727, #12954)
    245  * VMM: fixed a rare condition that would fail to invalidate guest TLB entries or would invalidate them when not required (Windows hosts only)
    246  * VMM: fixed a ''VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED'' Guru Meditation seen with certain guests, e.g. OpenServer 5.0.7
    247  * VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (tickets #12240, #12875)
    248  * GUI: fixed mouse positioning with mouse integration disabled and multiple guest screens (Windows hosts only; bug #9059)
    249  * GUI: fixed crash in VM manager (bug #12878)
    250  * GUI: fixed crash under rare conditions on entering/exiting full screen / seamless mode
    251  * Shared Clipboard: don't stop working after taking a snapshot (bug #12700)
    252  * AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances
    253  * API: fixed a hang during VM shutdown under rare conditions
    254  * NAT: fixed generation of malformed ICMP error datagrams (4.3.10 regression)
    255  * NAT: fixed potential crash in DNS proxy
    256  * NAT Network: don't drop port forwarding rules after some time
    257  * NAT: fixed ARP cache corruption and network loss in Windows guest caused by iSCSI service activity
    258  * USB: improved check if a storage device is currently mounted to the host when the device is about to be attached to the VM (Mac OS X hosts only; #11038)
    259  * 3D support: several fixes, including better support for Ubuntu 14.04
    260  * VRDP: fixed a potential crash on client disconnect (bug #12858)
    261  * VBoxSVC: fixed a race when a new client is started a few seconds after the last client terminated (Windows hosts only; bugs #11309, #12509)
    262  * VBoxSVC: fixed !VirtualBox.xml registry corruption after VM renaming
    263  * VBoxSVC: fixed a potential crash caused by incorrect USB device filter (Mac OS X hosts only; #11038)
    264  * Windows hosts: partly support 32-bit COM on 64-bit systems
    265  * Windows host installer: implemented merge module (msm) support
    266  * Linux hosts: fixed dependency of boot script on older Debian systems (bug #12262)
    267  * Linux guests: fix symbolic link to shared folder helper (bug #12879)
    268  * Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService during guest execute for users without a password (bug #12994)
    269  * Linux Additions: fixed a bug in guest execution where the guest process terminated with ''VERR_INTERRUPTED'' to the host
    270 
    271 '''!VirtualBox 4.3.10''' (released 2014-03-25)[[BR]][[BR]]
    272 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    273  * VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers on certain host CPUs (e.g. bugs #12734, #12736, #12744, #12748, #12686, #12770)
    274  * VMM: fixed single-stepping for real-mode guests (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution) and some I/O instructions (bug #12636)
    275  * VMM: fixed a potential problem with COW pages if nested paging is not available
    276  * GUI: Mac OS X: experimental native full screen support for Mountain Lion and Mavericks (bug #12292)
    277  * GUI: Mac OS X: removed the mini-toolbar minimize button which doesn't work under Mac OS X full screen mode anyway
    278  * GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows and Mac OS X hosts: fixed keyboard re-synchronization if the feature is disabled (as done by default; bug #12758)
    279  * GUI: fixed a potential crash when opening the preferences menu (bug #12862)
    280  * OVF: fixed a crash of the !VirtualBox Manager when re-starting guest export (bug #12586)
    281  * 3D support: several fixes
    282  * HGCM: fixed a problem with saved states which could cause several guest misbehavior after a VM was started from a saved state
    283  * Storage: fixed a bug preventing to compact differential snapshots under certain conditions
    284  * VBoxSVC: fixed a segmentation fault on Linux hosts if a very long path exists under /dev (bug #12760)
    285  * API: fixed guest misbehavior under certain conditions if a storage medium was attached or removed at VM runtime
    286  * Windows installer: make the ''--silent'' parameter work again (bug #12764)
    287  * Mac OS X Networking: prevent local traffic (VM-to/from-host) from leaking to wire (bug #12750)
    288  * Windows Additions: fixed the environment for guest processes (4.3.8 regression; bug #12782)
    289  * Windows Additions/WDDM: fixed divide by zero exception with multiple guest screens under certain conditions
    290  * Windows Additions/WDDM: fixed crashes with 2D video acceleration enabled (4.3.8 regression; bug #12745)
    291  * Linux Additions: install correctly on Ubuntu guest systems with a /usr/lib64 directory (bug #12513)
    292  * X11 Additions: fix for the VBoxClient process not exiting correctly (bug #12348) and consuming too much processor time
    293 
    294 '''!VirtualBox 4.3.8''' (released 2014-02-25)[[BR]][[BR]]
    295 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    296  * VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers (e.g. bugs #12224, #12544)
    297  * VMM: fixed a ''VERR_INVALID_RPL'' Guru Meditation when booting certain guests (bug #11350)
    298  * VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see the manual for more information how to enable it (bug #8651)
    299  * VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization
    300  * GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see the manual for more information
    301  * GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and the user tries to activate the remote display feature (bug #9104)
    302  * GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in full screen / seamless mode) keeps the minimized state (bug #12199)
    303  * GUI: popup banner's "do not show this message again" check-box replaced with corresponding button
    304  * GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar indicator
    305  * 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)
    306  * GUI: better error message if appliance import fails (bug #12657)
    307  * GUI: allow to set host-combination to 'None' using the Global settings / Input page (bug #12730)
    308  * GUI: don't switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot merge (4.3 regression)
    309  * 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
    310  * AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances
    311  * AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain circumstances
    312  * AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)
    313  * AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions
    314  * AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions
    315  * AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes
    316  * NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used (bug #12441)
    317  * NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with ICMP packets having TTL=1
    318  * NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly
    319  * NAT Network: ping proxy implemented
    320  * OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element (4.3 regression; bug #12345)
    321  * OVF: several fixes
    322  * 3D support: several fixes, multiscreen fixes (e.g. bug #9124)
    323  * 3D support: include 3D content in captured videos (bug #12666)
    324  * 3D support: include 3D content in captured screenshot (bug #11758)
    325  * VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest Additions are active (bug #6649)
    326  * USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare circumstances
    327  * BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives
    328  * API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)
    329  * 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)
    330  * 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)
    331  * VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in /bin (bug #12713)
    332  * Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders when starting a VM from a saved state (bug #12578)
    333  * 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)
    334  * Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining the number of physical CPU cores
    335  * Linux hosts / guests: don't warn in kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)
    336  * Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script (bug #11720)
    337  * Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar environment contents (bug #12596)
    338  * Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables (relevant for Guest Control)
    339  * Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray (bug #12563)
    340  * Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users
    341  * Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on XPDM -> WDDM upgrade
    342  * Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables
    343  * Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels (bug #12505)
    344  * Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels
    345  * Linux / Solaris Additions: don't automount a shared folder which is already mounted
    346  * X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15 (bug #12623)
    347 
    348 '''!VirtualBox 4.3.6''' (released 2013-12-18)[[BR]][[BR]]
    349 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    350  * VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation ''VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT'' caused by VMCB caching with nested paging on certain AMD CPUs (bug #12451)
    351  * VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation ''VERR_VMX_UNEXPECTED_INTERRUPTION_EXIT_TYPE'' while intercepting debug exceptions (VT-x only; bug #12410)
    352  * VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation ''VERR_SVM_UNEXPECTED_EXIT'' while intercepting debug register accesses (AMD-V only; bug #12481)
    353  * VMM: fixed a ''VERR_SSM_STRUCTURE_MAGIC'' error when trying to load a saved state made with VBox 4.3.4 when VT-x/AMD-V is disabled. Unfortunately, VBox 4.3.4 produced broken saved states for this configuration so you have to discard these states (bug #12414)
    354  * VMM: added a few more MSRs to the whitelist required by certain guests (bug #12245)
    355  * GUI: fixed deleting of inaccessible VMs (4.3 regression, bug #12205)
    356  * GUI: fixed warnings in VM settings / number of guest processors (bug #12480)
    357  * Main: don't automatically enable 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts if VT-x/AMD-V is not available (bug #12424)
    358  * Main: always expose the DMI memory information to Windows 2012 guests (bug #12017)
    359  * Main: fixed occasional crashes on guest display resolution change (bug #7063)
    360  * Main: fixed reporting back temporary name when calling ''IGuestSession::DirectoryCreateTemp()'' (bug #12498)
    361  * API: fix for a hang when launching a GUI VM through the API, which crashes due to GUI unavailability
    362  * Storage: fix for ''BLKCACHE_IOERR'' runtime errors under rare circumstances (bug #11030)
    363  * Network: allow to start more than 5 PCNet instances (bug #12426)
    364  * E1000: if the cable was disconnected before the guest initialized the device, the link status was not properly set to 'down' after the initialization completed despite the fact that there was no connection
    365  * 3D support: fixed offset of guest 3D image elements (Mac OS X Retina hosts only; bug #11021)
    366  * Solaris hosts: fixed accessing the host driver from non-global zones (4.3 regression, bug #12271)
    367 
    368 '''!VirtualBox 4.3.4''' (released 2013-11-29)[[BR]][[BR]]
    369 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    370  * VMM: fix for a bug in the Local APIC emulation causing a BSOD when booting certain guests (4.3.0 regression; bug #12240)
    371  * VMM: fixed loading of saved states if VT-x/AMD-V was disabled (4.3.2 regression; bug #12291)
    372  * VMM: fixed single-stepping inside the guest for certain instructions (VT-x only; bug #10947)
    373  * VMM: fixed a performance issue involving APIC accesses after rebooting a VM (4.3.0 regression; VT-x only; bug #12296)
    374  * VMM: fixed TPR patching to be enabled for 32-bit guests even when the chosen guest type is 64-bit (4.3.0 regression; AMD-V only)
    375  * VMM: fixed occasional ''VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT'' errors on hosts without the unrestricted guest execution feature (bug #12198)
    376  * GUI: don't bother the user with the BPP warning if no Guest Additions are installed
    377  * GUI: fixed machine-window paint artifacts on VM reboot / guest-screen resize
    378  * GUI: make sure the assigned license and description are attached to the exported appliance
    379  * GUI: fixed bugs in close VM action restrictions handling (bug #12333)
    380  * GUI: fixed incorrect wizards text colors for some unusual look and feel styles (bug #11743)
    381  * GUI: should restore seamless mode as soon as possible after VM reboot or shutdown
    382  * GUI: fixes for medium enumeration
    383  * GUI: the OS X hot corners were not accessible while a !VirtualBox VM is running (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4139)
    384  * GUI: fixed an old bug which bared the host from cleanly shutdown / reboot if the VM selector window is open (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #8254)
    385  * Host-only Networking: fixed creating of host-only network interfaces (4.3.0 regression; bug #12182)
    386  * NAT: don't run into an infinite loop in case the host cannot access any DNS server (4.3.0 regression; bug #12300)
    387  * NAT: don't re-connect the cable if the DNS information changes and the cable was disconnected before (4.3.0 regression; bug #12225)
    388  * NAT: fixed several issues with automatically starting / terminating of NAT networks on VM start / stop and configuration changes
    389  * VBoxNetDHCP: don't block prevent VBoxSVC from terminating (bug #12264)
    390  * 2D Video acceleration: fix crashes on presentation mode switches (bug #9194)
    391  * BusLogic: allow to run VMs with more than one BusLogic SCSI controller enabled
    392  * Keyboard: fixed a VM crash if a VM was resumed from a saved state where at least one key was pressed (bug #11289)
    393  * VBoxSVC: fixed a heap corruption under certain conditions (4.3.0 regression)
    394  * VBoxSVC: fixed a race leading to a hang during initialization (bug #12349)
    395  * OVF: fixed import logic for OVF appliances containing multiple VMs
    396  * OVF: improved logic for finding an appropriate image format during OVF import
    397  * API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks, their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM configuration corruption
    398  * API: mark VM configurations with snapshots but without current snapshot as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense
    399  * API: fixed information for some automatically generated events (only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice (bug #12379)
    400  * SDK: extended the functionality coverage for the C bindings
    401  * Guest Control: various bug fixes and improved VBoxManage help (bugs #8072, #11044, #12336, #12338, #12346, #12371)
    402  * Windows hosts: another attempt to fix the massive DPC latency (bug #6242)
    403  * Windows host installer: make registering file extensions optional, contributed by Tal Aloni (bug #8009)
    404  * Mac OS X hosts: properly sign the kernel extensions for Mavericks hosts (bug #12256)
    405  * Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug where the !VirtualBox dock icon was not properly removed from the dock after a VM terminated preventing Mavericks hosts from shutting down (bug #12241)
    406  * Mac OS X hosts: fixed minor installer issue (bug #12275)
    407  * Linux hosts / guests: Linux 3.13 compile fixes (bug #12358)
    408  * Linux guests: build the vboxvideo kernel module correctly on OL/RHEL 6.1 guests (bug #11996)
    409  * Linux guests: make 3D work on Slackware 14.1 (bug #12320 comments 3 and 4)
    410  * Guest Additions/3D: fixed an occasional dead-lock (bug #12319)
    411  * Windows Additions/3D: fixed possible memory leaking (bug #12228)
    412  * Windows Additions/XPDM: use separate tables containing valid video modes for each virtual monitor
    413  * Windows Additions: fixed automatic logins for Vista and newer Windows guests (bug #12332)
    414 
    415 '''!VirtualBox 4.3.2''' (released 2013-11-01)[[BR]][[BR]]
    416 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    417  * VMM: fixed restoring of the auxiliary TSC MSR in VT-x that caused host BSODs on Windows 8.1 hosts and unpredictable behavior on other hosts (bug #12237)
    418  * VMM: provide fake values for a couple of MSRs to make more guests happy on certain hosts
    419  * VMM: fixed detection of VT-x on certain machines where the BIOS would not set the VMX LOCK feature bit, which affected the VM settings in the GUI
    420  * VMM: fixed TPR threshold which caused BSODs on Windows XP guests that use the I/O APIC (VT-x only; bug #12227)
    421  * VMM: fixed PATM saved state incompatibility for software virtualized VMs (bug #12222)
    422  * VMM: don't fail if AMD-V isn't available if the VM is configured to use software virtualization
    423  * GUI: fixed guest resize breakage on visual representation mode change (when switching from normal to full screen etc)
    424  * GUI: make sure the guest screen is resized after restoring a VM from a saved state if the host screen size changed
    425  * GUI: disabled SCROLL LED sync from HID LEDs synchronization (Mac OS X hosts only)
    426  * Webcam passthrough improvements including GUI support (see the manual for more information)
    427  * Guest Control: implemented more ''IGuestSession'' methods
    428  * Guest Control: added support for deleting and renaming guest files + directories in VBoxManage
    429  * Guest Control: various bugfixes
    430  * API: incorrect handling of hardware UUID default value, resulting in an all zero DMI/SMBIOS UUID, which leads to Windows requesting re-activation (4.3 regression; bug #12244)
    431  * 3D support: fixed crash on shutdown if 2D video acceleration is enabled (Mac OS X hosts only)
    432  * 3D support: miscellaneous fixes
    433  * Storage: fixed detection of CD/DVD media when switching from an empty to a host drive with passthrough enabled
    434  * Storage: fixed hang of the VM process when the disk is full under certain circumstances
    435  * NAT: listen for changes of NAT Network setting at runtime
    436  * NAT: NAT Network DHCP server now saves leases to a persistent storage
    437  * Main: monitor changes in host DNS configuration
    438  * Mac OS X host: reworked a mechanism of adding a VM desktop alias from the VM selector
    439  * Mac OS X installer: remove old kernel extensions during upgrade (bug #12258)
    440  * Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing (bug #12166)
    441  * X11 Additions/3D: fix freezes starting 3D desktop (bug #11503, thank you Sam Spilsbury)
    442  * X11 Additions/3D: fix depth buffer support (bug #11905)
    443  * X11 Additions/3D: fix Age Of Empires 3 rendering (bug #11331)
    444  * Windows Additions/3D: fix Google Earth plugin rendering
    445  * Windows Additions/WDDM: autoresize fixes
     73 * Linux Additions: added -s parameter to mount.vboxsf to be sloppy with invalid parameters
     74 * X11 Additions: fixed wrong DPI value (bug #14151)
     75 * Mac OS X guests: limit the CPU family for legacy guests
     76 * Solaris Additions: added quiesce support to co-operate with Solaris' fast-reboot feature
    44677
    44778'''!VirtualBox 4.3.0''' (released 2013-10-15)[[BR]][[BR]]

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