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    3 '''!VirtualBox 3.0.12''' (released 2009-11-17)[[BR]][[BR]]
    4 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    5  * VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only; bug #4392)
    6  * VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed; bug #3135)
    7  * VMM: reinitialize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes forget this (Windows hosts only; bug #5421)
    8  * VMM: fix loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is enabled
    9  * BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru meditation (bug #5389)
    10  * GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window (bug #2676)
    11  * Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end is connected to a raw file
    12  * VMDK: fix handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression (bug #5355)
    13  * VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash
    14  * Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000; bug #5366)
    15  * Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the guest (bug #4496)
    16  * Shared folders: fixed changing case of file names (bug #2520)
    17  * Windows Additions: fix crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)
    18  * Linux Additions: fix writing to files opened in ''O_APPEND mode'' (bug #3805)
    19  * Solaris Additions: fix regression in guest additions driver which among other things caused lost guest property updates and periodic error messages being written to the system log
    20 
    21 '''!VirtualBox 3.0.10''' (released 2009-10-29)[[BR]][[BR]]
    22 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    23  * VMM: guest SMP stability fixes
    24  * VMM: fixed guru meditation with nested paging and SMP guests (bug #5222)
    25  * VMM: changed VT-x/AMD-V usage to detect other active hypervisors; necessary for e.g. Windows 7 XP compatibility mode (Windows & Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4239)
    26  * VMM: guru meditation during SCO !OpenServer installation and reboot (VT-x only; bug #5164)
    27  * VMM: fixed accessed bit handling in certain cases (bug #5248)
    28  * VMM: fixed VPID flushing (VT-x only)
    29  * VMM: fixed broken nested paging for 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts (AMD-V only; bug #5285)
    30  * VMM: fixed loading of old saved states/snapshots (bug #3984)
    31  * Mac OS X hosts: fixed memory leaks (bug #5084)
    32  * Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed redraw problem in a dual screen setup (bug #4942)
    33  * Windows hosts: installer updates for Windows 7
    34  * Solaris hosts: out of memory handled incorrectly (bug #5241)
    35  * Solaris hosts: the previous fix for #5077 broke the DVD host support on Solaris 10 (VBox 3.0.8 regression)
    36  * Linux hosts: fixed module compilation against Linux 2.6.32rc4 and later
    37  * Guest Additions: fixed possible guest OS kernel memory exhaustion
    38  * Guest Additions: fixed stability issues with SMP guests
    39  * Windows Additions: fixed color depth issue with low resolution hosts, netbooks, etc. (bug #4935)
    40  * Windows Additions: fixed ''NO_MORE_FILES'' error when saving to shared folders (bug #4106)
    41  * Windows Additions: fixed subdirectory creation on shared folders (bug #4299)
    42  * Linux Additions: ''sendfile()'' returned ''-EOVERFLOW'' when executed on a shared folder (bug #2921)
    43  * Linux Additions: fixed incorrect disk usage value (non-Windows hosts only)
    44  * Linux installer: register the module sources at DKMS even if the package provides proper modules for the current running kernel
    45  * 3D support: removed invalid OpenGL assertion (bug #5158)
    46  * Network: fixed the Am79C973 PCNet emulation for QNX (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)
    47  * VMDK: fix handling of split image variants
    48  * VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent image inconsistency
    49  * USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices
    50  * GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file
    51  * GUI/Windows hosts: fixed !CapsLock handling on French keyboards (bug #2025)
    52  * Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard initialisation failed (bug #4987)
    53 
    54 
    55 '''!VirtualBox 3.0.8''' (released 2009-10-06)[[BR]][[BR]]
    56 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    57  * VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6 (VT-x only; bug #4947)
    58  * VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x & AMD-V only; bug #5058)
    59  * VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows guest and IO-APIC enabled only; bug #5059)
    60  * VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests
    61  * VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression; software virtualization only)
    62  * VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the Sound Blaster 16 emulation (bug #5042)
    63  * Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands with root privileges
    64  * Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616)
    65  * Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291)
    66  * Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by opening the VM network settings (bug #3732)
    67  * Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM selector (bug #5063)
    68  * Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not available
    69  * Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as interrupts were not re-enabled everytime
    70  * Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only networking (bug #4775)
    71  * Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when changing them (bug #5077)
    72  * X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards (bug #4907)
    73  * Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002)
    74  * Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names with trailing garbage (attached VMs won't start)
    75  * Windows Additions: now work with Vista 64-bit Home editions (bug #3865)
    76  * Windows Additions: fixed screen corruption with !ZoomText Magnifier
    77  * Windows Additions: fixed ''NPGetUniversalName'' failure (bug #4853)
    78  * Windows Additions: fixed Windows NT regression (bug #4946)
    79  * Windows Additions: fixed VBoxService not running if no Shared Folders are installed
    80  * Linux Additions: implemented ''ftrunctate'' (bug #4771)
    81  * VRDP: start VM even if configured VRDP port is in use
    82  * Networking: the PCnet network device stopped receiving under rare conditions (bug #4870)
    83  * VBoxManage: implemented ''controlvm vrdpport'' command
    84  * iSCSI: fixed issue with !NetApp targets (#5072)
    85  * SCSI: add support for virtual disks larger than 2TB
    86  * USB: fixed potential crash when unplugging USB2 devices (bug #5089)
    87  * NAT: IPSEC did not properly work with Linux guests (bug #4801)
    88 
    89 '''!VirtualBox 3.0.6''' (released 2009-09-09)[[BR]][[BR]]
    90 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    91  * VMM: fixed IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT, 2000, XP and 2003 guests (AMD-V only; bug #4392)
    92  * VMM: fixed a Guru meditation under certain circumstances when enabling a disabled device (bug #4510)
    93  * VMM: fixed a Guru meditation when booting certain Arch Linux guests (software virtualization only; bug #2149)
    94  * VMM: fixed hangs with 64 bits Solaris & !OpenSolaris guests (bug #2258)
    95  * VMM: fixed decreasing ''rdtsc'' values (AMD-V & VT-x only; bug #2869)
    96  * VMM: small Solaris/OpenSolaris performance improvements (VT-x only)
    97  * VMM: ''cpuid'' change to correct reported virtual CPU id in Linux
    98  * VMM: NetBSD 5.0.1 CD hangs during boot (VT-x only; bug #3947)
    99  * Solaris hosts: worked around an issue that caused the host to hang (bug #4486)
    100  * Solaris hosts: fixed a rare host system deadlock when using bridged networking
    101  * Solaris hosts: fixed a potential host system deadlock when CPUs were onlined or offlined
    102  * Solaris hosts installer: added missing dependency for UTF-8 package (bug #4899)
    103  * Linux hosts: don't crash on Linux PAE kernels < 2.6.11 (in particular RHEL/CentOS 4); disable VT-x on Linux kernels < 2.6.13 (bug #1842)
    104  * Linux/Solaris hosts: correctly detect keyboards with fewer keys than usual (bug #4799)
    105  * Mac OS X hosts: prevent password dialogs in 32 bits Snow Leopard
    106  * Python WS: fixed issue with certain enumerations constants having wrong values in Python webservices bindings
    107  * Python API: several threading and platform issues fixed
    108  * Python shell: added ''exportVM'' command
    109  * Python shell: various improvements and bugfixes
    110  * Python shell: corrected detection of home directory in remote case
    111  * OVF: fixed XML comment handling that could lead to parser errors
    112  * Main: fixed a rare parsing problem with port numbers of USB device filters in machine settings XML
    113  * Main: restrict guest RAM size to 1.5 GB (32 bits Windows hosts only)
    114  * Main: fixed possible hang during guest reboot (bug #3792)
    115  * GUI: fixed rare crash when removing the last disk from the media manager (bug #4795)
    116  * VBoxManage: fixed ''guestproperty'' for Mac OS X hosts (bug #3806)
    117  * VBoxManage: fixed setting guest properties with --flags or -flags
    118  * Webservice: fixed a severe memory leak, at least on platforms using XPCOM
    119  * Serial: fixed host mode (Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X hosts; bug #4672)
    120  * VRDP: Remote USB Protocol version 3
    121  * SATA: fixed hangs and BSODs introduced with 3.0.4 (bugs #4695, #4739, #4710)
    122  * SATA: fixed a bug which prevented Windows 7 from detecting more than one hard disk
    123  * SATA/SCSI: fixed rare random guest crashes and hangs
    124  * SCSI: fixed problem with Fedora 11 refusing to boot after kernel update
    125  * iSCSI: fix logging out when the target has dropped the connection, fix negotiation of simparameters, fix command resend when the connection was dropped, fix processing SCSI status for targets which do not use phase collapse
    126  * BIOS: fixed a bug that caused the OS/2 boot manager to fail (2.1.0 regression, bug #3911)
    127  * !PulseAudio: don't hang during VM termination if the connection to the server was unexpectedly terminated (bug #3100)
    128  * Mouse: fixed weird mouse behaviour with SMP (Solaris) guests (bug #4538)
    129  * !HostOnly Network: fixed failure in ''!CreateHostOnlyNetworkInterface()'' on Linux (no GUID)
    130  * !HostOnly Network: fixed wrong DHCP server startup while hostonly interface bringup on Linux
    131  * !HostOnly Network: fixed incorrect factory and default MAC address on Solaris
    132  * !HostOnly Network: fixed the problem with listing host-only interfaces on Mac OS X when all physical interfaces are down (bugs #4698, #4790)
    133  * DHCP: fixed a bug in the DHCP server where it allocated one IP address less than the configured range
    134  * E1000: fixed receiving of multicast packets
    135  * E1000: fixed up/down link notification after resuming a VM
    136  * NAT: fixed ethernet address corruptions (bug #4839)
    137  * NAT: fixed hangs, dropped packets and retransmission problems (bug #4343)
    138  * Bridged Network: fixed packet queue issue which might cause DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE BSOD for Windows hosts (bug #4821)
    139  * Windows Additions: fixed a bug in VBoxGINA which prevented selecting the right domain when logging in the first time
    140  * Windows host installer: should now also work on unicode systems (like Korean, bug #3707)
    141  * Windows host installer: check for sufficient disk space
    142  * Shared clipboard: do not send zero-terminated text to X11 guests and hosts (bug #4712)
    143  * Shared clipboard: use a less CPU intensive way of checking for new data on X11 guests and hosts (bug #4092)
    144  * Guest Additions: do not hide the host mouse cursor when restoring a saved state (bug #4700)
    145  * Windows guests: fixed issues with the display of the mouse cursor image (bugs #2603, #2660 and #4817)
    146  * SUSE 11 guests: fixed Guest Additions installation (bug #4506)
    147  * Guest Additions: support Fedora 12 Alpha guests (bugs #4731, #4733 and #4734)
    148 
    149 '''!VirtualBox 3.0.4''' (released 2009-08-04)[[BR]][[BR]]
    150 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    151  * VMM: 64 bits guest stability fixes (AMD-V only; bugs #3923 & #3666)
    152  * VMM: SMP stability fixes (AMD-V only)
    153  * VMM: SMP performance improvement (esp. for Solaris guests)
    154  * VMM: eliminated several bugs which could lead to a host reboot
    155  * VMM: fixed OS/2 ACP2 boot floppy hang (VT-x only)
    156  * VMM: small performance improvement for !OpenSolaris guests (AMD-V only)
    157  * VMM: fixed CentOS/Xen reboot (software virtualization only; bug #4509)
    158  * SATA: fixed hangs / BSOD during Windows XP installation (bug #4342)
    159  * SATA: mark the ports as non hotpluggable (bug #3920)
    160  * 3D support: fix deadlocks and context/window tracking for multithreaded applications (bug #3922)
    161  * 3D support: fix memory leaks when terminating OpenGL guest applications
    162  * 3D support: fix crash in Call of Duty
    163  * NAT: using two or more NAT adapters in one VM was broken (3.0.0 regression)
    164  * NAT: fixed network communication corruptions (bugs #4499, #4540, #4591, #4604)
    165  * NAT: fixed passive ftp access to host server (bug #4427)
    166  * iSCSI: fixed cloning to/from iSCSI disks
    167  * GUI: fixed path separator handling for the OVF export on Windows (bug #4354)
    168  * GUI: the mini toolbar was only shown on the first host display (bug #4654)
    169  * GUI: added a VM option to display the mini toolbar on top
    170  * GUI: don’t crash when adding plus configuring host-only network interfaces
    171  * Shared Folders: fixed selection of a drive root directory as a shared folder host path in !VirtualBox (Windows host only)
    172  * USB: fixed a bug that may have rendered USB devicefilter settings inactive (3.0.2 regression, bug #4668)
    173  * Guest Additions: report the Guest Additions version to the guest properties (bug #3415)
    174  * Mac OS X hosts: fix creation of VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #1461)
    175  * Mac OS X hosts: improved support for Snow Leopard
    176  * Linux hosts: fixed problems leading to wrong colors or transparency in host windows with some graphics drivers (bug #3095)
    177  * Linux hosts: hardware detection fallbacks if the hal service fails to find any DVD drives.
    178  * Linux and Solaris hosts: Work around color handling problems in Qt (bug #4353)
    179  * Solaris hosts: fixed memory leaks in host-only networking
    180  * Solaris Installer: fixed incorrect netmask for Host-only interface (bug #4590)
    181  * Solaris Installer: added package dependency for Python and Python-devel (bug #4570)
    182  * X11 guests: prevent windows from being skipped in seamless mode KDE guests (bugs #1681 and #3574)
    183  * X11 guests: fixed screen corruption in X11 guests when large amounts of video RAM were allocated (bug #4430)
    184  * X11 guests: some fixes when switching between host and guest-drawn mouse pointers.
    185  * X11 guests: fixed an issue which caused seamless mode to stop working as it should (the main issue listed in bug #2238).
    186 
    187 '''!VirtualBox 3.0.2''' (released 2009-07-10)[[BR]][[BR]]
    188 This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
    189  * VMM: fixed network regressions (guest hangs during network IO) (bug #4343)
    190  * VMM: guest SMP performance improvements
    191  * VMM: fixed hangs and poor performance with Kaspersky Internet Security (VT-x/AMD-V only; bug #1778)
    192  * VMM: fixed crashes when executing certain Linux guests (software virtualization only; bugs #2696 & #3868)
    193  * ACPI: fixed Windows 2000 kernel hangs with IO-APIC enabled (bug #4348)
    194  * APIC: fixed high idle load for certain Linux guests (3.0 regression)
    195  * BIOS: properly handle Ctrl-Alt-Del in real mode
    196  * iSCSI: fixed configuration parsing (bug #4236)
    197  * OVF: fix potential confusion when exporting networks
    198  * OVF: compatibility fix (bug #4452)
    199  * NAT: fixed crashes under certain circumstances (bug #4330)
    200  * 3D support: fixed dynamic linking on Solaris/OpenSolaris guests (bug #4399)
    201  * 3D support: fixed incorrect context/window tracking for multithreaded apps
    202  * Shared Folders: fixed loading from saved state (bug #1595)
    203  * Shared Folders: host file permissions set to 0400 with Windows guest (bug #4381)
    204  * X11 host and guest clipboard: fixed a number of issues, including bug #4380 and #4344
    205  * X11 Additions: fixed some issues with seamless windows in X11 guests (bug #3727)
    206  * Windows Additions: added VBoxServiceNT for NT4 guests (for time synchronization and guest properties)
    207  * Windows Additions: fixed version lookup
    208  * Linux hosts: workaround for buggy graphics drivers showing a black VM window on recent distributions (bug #4335)
    209  * Linux hosts: fixed typo in kernel module startup script (bug #4388)
    210  * Installer: support Pardus Linux
    211  * Solaris hosts: several installer fixes
    212  * Solaris host: fixed a preemption issue causing VMs to never start on Solaris 10 (bug #4328).
    213  * Solaris guest: fixed mouse integration for !OpenSolaris 2009.06 (bug #4365)
    214  * Windows hosts: fixed high CPU usage after resuming the host (bug #2978)
    215  * OVF: accept ''ovf:/disk/'' specifiers with a single slash in addition to ''!ovf://disk/'' (bug #4452)
    216  * 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.
    217 
    218 '''!VirtualBox 3.0.0''' (released 2009-06-30)[[BR]][[BR]]
     3'''!VirtualBox 3.1.0''' (released 2009-11-30)[[BR]][[BR]]
    2194This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
    220  * Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see [/manual/UserManual.html#settings-processor chapter 3.7.2.2] of the [http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.0/UserManual.pdf user manual])
    221  * 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])
    222  * Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
     5 * Teleportation (aka live migration); migrate a live VM session from one host to another (see the manual for more information)
     6 * VM states can now be restored from arbitrary snapshots instead of only the last one, and new snapshots can be taken from other snapshots as well ("branched snapshots"; see the manual for more information)
     7 * 2D video acceleration for Windows guests; use the host video hardware for overlay stretching and color conversion (see the manual for more information)
     8 * More flexible storage attachments: CD/DVD drives can be attached to arbitrary storage controllers, and there can be more than one such drive (the manual for more information)
     9 * The network attachment type can be changed while a VM is running
     10 * Complete rewrite of experimental USB support for !OpenSolaris hosts making use of the latest USB enhancements in Solaris Nevada 124 and higher
     11 * Significant performance improvements for PAE and AMD64 guests (VT-x and AMD-V only; normal (non-nested) paging)
     12 * Experimental support for EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface; see the manual for more information)
     13 * Support for paravirtualized network adapters (virtio-net; see the manual for more information)
    22314In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
    224  * Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)
    225  * Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under certain conditions
    226  * Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE
    227  * Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)
    228  * VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)
    229  * VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don’t support this feature (most do); bug #638)
    230  * VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)
    231  * VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels)
    232  * VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)
    233  * VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)
    234  * VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due to XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)
    235  * VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)
    236  * GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)
    237  * GUI: redesigned settings dialogs
    238  * GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters (non Windows hosts)
    239  * GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)
    240  * GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)
    241  * 3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states
    242  * 3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats
    243  * 3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements
    244  * 3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs
    245  * 3D support: fixed glew library detection
    246  * 3D support: fixed random textures corruption
    247  * VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client
    248  * Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum offloading with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18
    249  * NAT: fixed “open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514” (forum)
    250  * NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters
    251  * NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface
    252  * PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)
    253  * VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)
    254  * VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image
    255  * VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes
    256  * VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)
    257  * VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file
    258  * OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes
    259  * OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once
    260  * Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)
    261  * Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions (2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)
    262  * Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the correct file mode when creating files
    263  * Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain conditions (bug #1187)
    264  * Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest on a Linux host (bug #3404)
    265  * X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)
    266  * X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes
    267  * Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
    268  * Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and guest property lookup
    269  * Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users, basic network information)
    270  * Windows host installer: !VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)
    271  * 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).
    272  * USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles
    273  * 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.
    274  * Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface inheritance correctly, fixed
    275  * Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously unavailable
    276  * Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now
     15 * VMM: guest SMP fixes for certain rare cases
     16 * GUI: snapshots include a screenshot
     17 * GUI: locked storage media can be unmounted by force
     18 * GUI: the a log window grabbed all key events from other GUI windows (bug #5291)
     19 * GUI: allow to disable USB filters (bug #5426)
     20 * GUI: improved memory slider in the VM settings
     21 * 3D support: major performance improvement in VBO processing
     22 * 3D support: added ''GL_EXT_framebuffer_object'', ''GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array'' support
     23 * 3D support: fixed crashes in !FarCry, !SecondLife, Call of Duty, Unreal Tournament, Eve Online (bugs #2801, #2791)
     24 * 3D support: fixed graphics corruption in World of Warcraft (#2816)
     25 * 3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (#4653)
     26 * 3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of non ARGB textures under compiz
     27 * iSCSI: support iSCSI targets with more than 2TiB capacity
     28 * VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash (bug #5424)
     29 * Network: fixed the E1000 emulation for QNX (and probably other) guests (bug #3206)
     30 * NAT: added host resolver DNS proxy (see the manual for more information)
     31 * VMDK: fixed incorrectly rejected big images split into 2G pieces (bug #5523, #2787)
     32 * VMDK: fixed compatibility issue with fixed or raw disk VMDK files (bug #2723)
     33 * VHD: fixed incompatibility with Hyper-V
     34 * Support for Parallels version 2 disk image (HDD) files; see the manual for more information
     35 * OVF: create manifest files on export and verify the content of an optional manifest file on import
     36 * OVF: fixed memory setting during import (bug #4188)
     37 * Mouse device: now five buttons are passed to the guest (bug #3773)
     38 * VBoxHeadless: fixed loss of saved state when VM fails to start
     39 * VBoxSDL: fixed crash during shutdown (Windows hosts only)
     40 * X11 based hosts: allow the user to specify their own scan code layout (bug #2302)
     41 * Mac OS X hosts: don't auto show the menu and dock in fullscreen (bug #4866)
     42 * Mac OS X hosts (64 bit): don't interpret mouse wheel events as left click (bug #5049)
     43 * Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM abort during shutdown under certain conditions
     44 * Solaris hosts: combined the kernel interface package into the VirtualBox main package
     45 * Solaris hosts: support for !OpenSolaris Boomer architecture (with OSS audio backend).
     46 * Shared folders: VBOXSVR is visible in Network folder (Windows guests, bug #4842)
     47 * Shared folders: performance improvements (Windows guests, bug #1728)
     48 * Windows, Linux and Solaris Additions: added balloon tip notifier if VirtualBox host version was updated and Additions are out of date
     49 * Solaris guests: fixed keyboard emulation (bug #1589)
     50 * Solaris Additions: fixed as_pagelock() failed errors affecting guest properties (bug #5337)
     51 * Windows Additions: added automatic logon support for Windows Vista and Windows 7
     52 * Windows Additions: improved file version lookup for guest OS information
     53 * Windows Additions: fixed runtime OS detection on Windows 7 for session information
     54 * Windows Additions: fixed crash in seamless mode (contributed by Huihong Luo)
     55 * Linux Additions: added support for uninstalling the Linux Guest Additions (bug #4039)
     56 * Linux guest shared folders: allow mounting a shared folder if a file of the same name as the folder exists in the current directory (bug #928)
     57 * SDK: added object-oriented web service bindings for PHP5
    27758
    27859For the changelog of previous !VirtualBox series, have a look at

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