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| | 9 | '''!VirtualBox 5.1.8''' (released 2016-10-18)[[BR]][[BR]] |
| | 10 | This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: |
| | 11 | * GUI: fixed keyboard shortcut handling regressions (Mac OS X hosts only; bugs #15937 and #15938) |
| | 12 | * GUI: fixed keyboard handling regression for separate UI (Windows hosts only; bugs #15928) |
| | 13 | * NAT: don't exceed the maximum number of "search" suffixes. Patch from bug #15948. |
| | 14 | * NAT: fixed parsing of port-forwarding rules with a name which contains a slah (bug #16002) |
| | 15 | * NAT Network: when the host has only loopback nameserver that cannot be mapped to the guests (e.g. dnsmasq running on 127.0.1.1), make DHCP supply NAT Network DNS proxy as nameserver. |
| | 16 | * Bridged Network: prevent flooding syslog with packet allocation error messages (bug #15569) |
| | 17 | * Audio: now using Audio Queues on Mac OS X hosts |
| | 18 | * Audio: fixed recording with the PulseAudio backend (5.1 regression) |
| | 19 | * Audio: various bugfixes |
| | 20 | * Snapshots: fixed regression in 5.1.4 for deleting snapshots with several disks (bug #15831) |
| | 21 | * Snapshots: crash fix and better error reporting when snapshot deletion failed |
| | 22 | * Storage: some fixes for the NVMe emulation with Windows guests |
| | 23 | * API: fixed initialization of SAS controllers (bug #15972) |
| | 24 | * Build system: make it possible to build VBox on systems which default to Python 3 |
| | 25 | * Windows hosts: detect certain cases of ''REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG'' errors and print a helpful error message |
| | 26 | * Windows hosts: adapted to changes in Windows 10 build 14901 (bug #15944) |
| | 27 | * Windows hosts: better support for processor groups on Windows 7 and later which is required on certain hosts with many CPUs |
| | 28 | * Windows installer / Additions: added option to prevent creating of start menu items (bug #15922) |
| | 29 | * Windows Additions / VGA: if the guest's power management turns a virtual screen off, blank the corresponding VM window rather than hide the window |
| | 30 | * Windows Additions: fixed a generic bug which could lead to freezing shared folders (bug #15662) |
| | 31 | * Linux hosts / guests: fix for kernels with ''CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK'' set (bug #16020) |
| | 32 | * Linux Additions: don't require all virtual consoles be in text mode. This should fix cases when the guest is booted with a graphical boot screen (bug #15683) |
| | 33 | * Linux Additions: added depmod overrides for the vboxguest and vboxsf kernel modules to fix conflicts with modules shipped by certain Linux distributions |
| | 34 | * X11 Additions: disable 3D on the guest if the host does not provide enough capabilities (bug #15860) |
