Changes between Version 59 and Version 60 of Changelog-5.1

Timestamp:

Jul 10, 2009 6:49:22 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

Frank Mehnert

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Changelog-5.1

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 = Changelog =
+'''!VirtualBox 3.0.2''' (released 2009-07-10)[[BR]][[BR]]
+This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
+ * Installer: support Pardus Linux
+ * VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)
+ * VMM: guest SMP performance improvements
+ * VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security (VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)
+ * VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)
+ * ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)
+ * APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression) 
+ * BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode
+ * iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)
+ * OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks
+ * OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)
+ * NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)
+ * 3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)
+ * 3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps
+ * Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)
+ * Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows guest (bug #4381)
+ * X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344
+ * X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)
+ * Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests (for time synchronization and guest properties)
+ * Windows Additions: fixed version lookup
+ * Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)
+ * Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)
+ * Solaris hosts: several installer fixes
+ * Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328).
+ * Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for !OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365)
+ * Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)
+ * OVF: accept ''ovf:/disk/'' specifiers with a single slash in addition to ''!ovf://disk/'' (bug #4452)
+ * Fixed a settings file conversion bug which sometimes caused hardware acceleration to be enabled for virtual machines that had no explicit configuration in the XML.
 
 '''!VirtualBox 3.0.0''' (released 2009-06-30)[[BR]][[BR]]
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  * Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental; see [/manual/UserManual.html#guestadd-3d chapter 4.8] of the [http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.0/UserManual.pdf user manual])
  * Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
-In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
+In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
  * Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)
  * Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under certain conditions
- * Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE
- * Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)
- * VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)
+ * Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE
+ * Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)
+ * VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)
  * VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don’t support this feature (most do); bug #638)
- * VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)
+ * VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)
  * VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels)
  * VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)
- * VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)
- * VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due to XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)
+ * VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)
+ * VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due to XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)
  * VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)
  * GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)
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  * GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters (non Windows hosts)
  * GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)
- * GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)
- * 3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states
- * 3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats
- * 3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements
- * 3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs
- * 3D support: fixed glew library detection
- * 3D support: fixed random textures corruption
+ * GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)
+ * 3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states
+ * 3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats
+ * 3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements
+ * 3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs
+ * 3D support: fixed glew library detection
+ * 3D support: fixed random textures corruption
  * VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client
- * Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18
- * NAT: fixed “open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514” (forum)
- * NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters
- * NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface
- * PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)
+ * Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18
+ * NAT: fixed “open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514” (forum)
+ * NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters
+ * NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface
+ * PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)
  * VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)
- * VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image
- * VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes
- * VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)
- * VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file
- * OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes
- * OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once
+ * VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image
+ * VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes
+ * VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)
+ * VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file
+ * OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes
+ * OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once
  * Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)
- * Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions (2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)
- * Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the correct file mode when creating files
+ * Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions (2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)
+ * Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the correct file mode when creating files
  * Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain conditions (bug #1187)
- * Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest on a Linux host (bug #3404)
- * X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)
- * X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes
+ * Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest on a Linux host (bug #3404)
+ * X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)
+ * X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes
  * Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
  * Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and guest property lookup
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  * Windows host installer: !VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)
  * USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242).
- * USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles
- * Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented web service.
- * Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface inheritance correctly, fixed
+ * USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles
+ * Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented web service.
+ * Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface inheritance correctly, fixed
  * Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously unavailable
  * Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now