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Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of Changelog-5.1


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Jun 6, 2007 6:24:34 AM (17 years ago)
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Achim Hasenmueller
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  • Changelog-5.1

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    11= Changelog =
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     3'''!VirtualBox 1.4.0''' (released 2007-06-06)
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     5 * General: added support for OS X hosts
     6 * General: added support for AMD64 hosts
     7 * General: signed all executables and device drivers on Windows
     8 * GUI: added user interface for Shared Folders
     9 * GUI: added context menu for network adapters
     10 * GUI: added VM description field for taking notes
     11 * GUI: always restore guest mouse pointer when entering VM window (Windowss host)
     12 * GUI: added configuration options for clipboard synchronization
     13 * GUI: improved keyboard handling on Linux hosts
     14 * GUI: added first run wizard
     15 * GUI: improved boot device order dialog
     16 * GUI: auto-resize did not work after save/restore
     17 * GUI: restore original window size when returning from fullscreen mode
     18 * GUI: fixed screen update when switching to fullscreen mode
     19 * GUI: the size of the VM window was sometimes resetted to 640x480
     20 * GUI: added localizationss
     21 * GUI: various minor improvements
     22 * VBoxManage: added convertdd command
     23 * API: automatically start and terminate VBoxSVC on Linux and OS X hosts
     24 * VMM: increased startup performance due to lazy memory allocation
     25 * VMM: significantly increased maximum guest memory size
     26 * VMM: fixed issues with V86 mode
     27 * VMM: support V86 extensions (VME)
     28 * VMM: support guests with a full GDT
     29 * VMM: fixed boot hangs for some Linux kernels
     30 * VMM: improved FreeBSD and OpenBSD support
     31 * VMM: improved performance of guests that aggressively patch kernel code (very  recent Linux 2.6 kernels)
     32 * VMM: added workaround for a design flaw in AMD AM2 CPUs where the timestamp  counter shows large differences among CPU cores
     33 * VMM: fixed Linux guests with grsecurity
     34 * VMM: fixed issue on 2G/2G Linux kernels (even 1G/3G kernels should work)
     35 * VMM: fixed Linux detection of Local APIC on non-Intel and non-AMD CPUs
     36 * VMM: timing improvements with high host system loads (VM starvation)
     37 * VMM: experimental AMD SVM hardware virtualization support now also handles real and protected mode without paging
     38 * VMM: added system time offset parameter to allow for VMs to run in the past or future
     39 * VMM: provide an MPS 1.4 table if the IOAPIC is enabled
     40 * RDP: allow binding the RDP server to a specific interface
     41 * RDP: added support for clipboard synchronization
     42 * RDP: fixed problems with OS X RDP client
     43 * RDP: added support for multiple simultaneous connections to one VM
     44 * RDP: added support for MS RDP6 clients (Vista)
     45 * Storage: experimental support for VMDK images (writethrough mode only, no snapshots yet)
     46 * Storage: raw host disk support, including individual partitions
     47 * IDE: improve CHS geometry detection
     48 * IDE: fixed problem that only one VM could open an immutable image
     49 * NAT: allow more than one card configured for NAT networking
     50 * NAT: pass first entry in DNS search list (Linux host) or primary DNS suffix (Windows host) as domain name in DHCP
     51 * NAT: support UDP broadcasts, which enables using Windows shares
     52 * NAT: only warn if the name server could not be determined, no fatal error anymore
     53 * NAT: fix a potential problem with incorrect memory allocation
     54 * Internal Networking: fixed issue on Windows hosts
     55 * Host Interface Networking: fixed sporadic crashes on interface creation/destruction (Windows host)
     56 * Host Interface Networking: reworked TAP handling for Linux 2.6.18+ compatibility
     57 * PXE: show error for unsupported V86 case
     58 * PXE: small fix for parsing PXE menu entry without boot server IP
     59 * Network: fixed network card hang after save/restore
     60 * USB: Rewrote Windows USB handling without the need for a filter driver
     61 * USB: Possible to steal arbitrary devices in Windows
     62 * Serial: added serial ports with support for named pipes (local domain sockets) on the host
     63 * Audio: fixed problem with ALSA on Linux before 2.6.18 blocking other ALSA clients on the system
     64 * Audio: fixed problem with ALSA on AMD64 hosts
     65 * Input: fixed PS/2 mouse detection in Win 3.x guests
     66 * Shared Folders: fixed VM save/restore behaviour
     67 * Shared Folders: functionality and stability fixes
     68 * Shared Folders: allow non admin users to map folders
     69 * Additions: added clipboard synchronization
     70 * Windows Additions: fixed dynamic resolution changes after save/restore
     71 * Windows Additions: added AMD PCNet driver for Windows Vista guests (with kind permission from AMD)
     72 * Linux Additions: fixed a dependency problem which caused the vboxadd kernel module sometimes start after the X server
     73 * Linux Additions: make VBox version visible in Linux modules with modinfo
     74 * Linux Additions: make X11 guest video driver accept arbitrary X resolutions
     75 * Linux Additions: make X11 setup work if /tmp uses a separate file system
     76 * Linux Additions: better support unknown distributions
     77 * Linux Installer: force a non-executable stack for all binaries and shared libraries
     78 * Linux Installer: make it work on SELinux-enabled systems
     79 * Linux Installer: ship VBoxTunctl
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    381'''!VirtualBox 1.3.8''' (released 2007-03-14)

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