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Changelog

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V is used (bug #17961)
    VMM: Fixed MONITOR/MWAIT crash with Solaris guests when Hyper-V is used on Windows 11
    VMM: Introduced general improvements in nested visualization area
    VMM: Fixed triple fault related guru meditations for UEFI guests starting with macOS Ventura 13.3 (bug #21563)
    GUI: Brought back Restore current snapshot checkbox of Close VM dialog (bugs #21189, #21491)
    GUI: Fixes and validation for VM settings USB filters editor, filter port value is now properly saved/restored
    GUI: Fixes for VM name and OS type embedded editors of Details pane
    GUI: Cloud related wizards should now propose enabled profiles before disabled
    Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support module for full VM encryption
    E1000: Fixed possible guru meditation when changing network attachments (bug #21488)
    virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201)
    3D: Fixed various graphics issues with Windows 7 guests (bugs #21129, #21196, #21208, #21521)
    Main/UefiVariableStore: Added API to add signatures to the MOK list (Machine Owner Key)
    VBoxManage: Introduced modifynvram enrollmok sub-command to enroll Machine Owner Key into NVRAM, so Linux guest kernel can pick it up in order to verify signature of modules signed with this key
    Guest Control/Main: Fixed deleting files via built-in toolbox
    Linux host: Added possibility to bypass kernel modules signature verification once VBOX_BYPASS_MODULES_SIGNATURE_CHECK="1" is specified in /etc/vbox/vbox.cfg, useful in case if Linux distribution does not provide necessary tools to verify kernel module signature
    Linux Guest Additions and host Installer: Improved detection if system is running systemd as the init process
    Linux Guest Additions and host drivers: Introduce initial support for kernel 6.3
    Linux Guest Additions: Added possibility to bypass kernel modules signature verification once VBOX_BYPASS_MODULES_SIGNATURE_CHECK="1" is specified in /etc/virtualbox-guest-additions.conf, useful in case if Linux distribution does not provide necessary tools to verify kernel module signature
    Linux Guest Additions: Added experimental support for kernel modules and user services reloading in the end of installation process, thus guest system reboot after Guest Additions (7.0.8 and newer) upgrade is no longer required in general case
    Linux Guest Additions: Fixed vboxvideo build issue with RHEL 8.7, 9.1 and 9.2 kernels (bugs #21446 and #21450)

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This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    E1000: Fixed possible guru meditation when changing network attachments (bug #21488)
    Linux Guest Additions and host Installer: Improved detection if system is running systemd as the init process
    Linux Guest Additions and host drivers: Introduce initial support for kernel 6.3
    Linux Guest Additions: Fixed vboxvideo build issue with RHEL 8.7, 9.1 and 9.2 kernels (bugs #21446 and #21450)

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Changelog

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    OCI: Introduced general improvements
    VMM: Fixed sluggish performance starting with macOS Ventura 13.3 (bug #21563, bug#21596)
    VMM: Fixed a bug while walking page tables while executing nested VMs causing flooding of the release log as a consequence (Intel hosts only, bug #21551)
    GUI: Added general improvements
    TPM: Fixed a crash when a VM has a TPM version 1.2 configured (bug #21622)
    3D: Initial support for OpenGL 4.1
    3D: Fixed various graphics issues with Windows 11 guests (bugs #21136, #21515)
    Guest Control/VBoxManage: Fixed parameter "--ignore-orphaned-processes"
    Guest Control/VBoxManage: Fixed behavior of how handling argument 0 for a started guest process works: One can now explicitly specify it with the newly added option "--arg0". This will effectively restore the behavior of former VirtualBox versions
    Audio: Also use the PulseAudio backend when pipewire-pulse is running instead of falling back to ALSA (bug #21575)
    NAT: Adjusted UDP proxy timeout from 18-21 to 21-24 range to respect intended 20 second timeout (bug #21560)
    Linux Host: Added initial support for Indirect Branch Tracking (bug #21435)
    Linux Host: Added initial support for kernel 6.5 (NOTE: Guest Additions do not support kernel 6.5 yet)
    Solaris Host: Introduced general improvements in the installer area
    Linux Host and Guest: Improved condition check when kernel modules need to be signed
    Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 8.8 (bug #21692), 8.9 (bug #21690) and 9.3 (bugs #21598 and #21671) kernels
    MacOS Host and Guest: Introduced general improvements in the installer area
    Windows Host and Guest: Introduced ECDSA support (bug #21621)
    Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when kernel modules were rebuilt on each boot when guest system has no X11 installed
    Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.4
    Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when vboxvideo module reloading caused kernel panic in some guests (bug #21740)
    Linux Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in the installer area
    Windows Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in graphics drivers area

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Changelog

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    Guest Control/VBoxManage: Fixed parameter "--ignore-orphaned-processes"
    Guest Control/VBoxManage: Fixed behavior of how handling argument 0 for a started guest process works: One can now explicitly specify it with the newly added option "--arg0". This will effectively restore the behavior of former VirtualBox versions
    Audio: Also use the PulseAudio backend when pipewire-pulse is running instead of falling back to ALSA (bug #21575)
    NAT: Adjusted UDP proxy timeout from 18-21 to 21-24 range to respect intended 20 second timeout (bug #21560)
    Linux Host: Added initial support for Indirect Branch Tracking (NOTE: All distributions .run installer and Extension Pack in VirtualBox 6.1.x series do not support this feature, please consider upgrading to 7.0.x) (bug #21435)
    Linux Host: Added initial support for kernel 6.5 (NOTE: Guest Additions do not support kernel 6.5 yet)
    Solaris Host: Introduced general improvements in the installer area
    Linux Host and Guest: Improved condition check when kernel modules need to be signed
    Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 8.8 (bug #21692), 8.9 (bug #21690) and 9.3 (bug #21598) kernels
    MacOS Host and Guest: Introduced general improvements in the installer area
    Windows Host and Guest: Introduced ECDSA support (bug #21621)
    Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when kernel modules were rebuilt on each boot when guest system has no X11 installed
    Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.4
    Windows Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in graphics drivers area

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Changelog 7.0.12

    VMM: Fixed using a debugger inside the guest under certain circumstances (bugs #21413 and #21546)
    VMM: Fixed detection of VT-x being used by other hypervisors (bug #21867)
    VMM: Introduced additional improvements in Split Lock Detection feature of recent Intel CPUs on Linux hosts (bug #20180)
    GUI: Fixed issue when the nested hardware virtualization setting was not displayed in the VM details panel (bug #21707)
    GUI: Introduced NLS update for Croatian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch and Turkish languages as well as added general look-and-feel improvements
    Devices: Fixed black screen in Windows guests with multiple guest screens when 3D is disabled (7.0.10 regression)
    Devices: Fixed PCI device identifiers for the VirtIO network interface (bug #21516)
    Devices: Fixed VLAN support for the VirtIO network interface (bug #21778)
    Devices: Fixed loading saved states when a TPM is configured (7.0.10 regression, bug #21773)
    Networking: Fixed memory leaks in the VBoxIntNetSwitch process on macOS (bug #21752)
    Networking: Fixed TCP connections with IP addresses ending on .2 when the NAT network attachment is used (bug #21513)
    Audio: Fixed switching host audio devices on Windows hosts using the WAS backend (bugs #20431, #21517, #20630 and #20723)
    VRDP: Added general improvements
    VBoxManage: Added improvements for "list usbfilters" command
    Unattended: Added kick start file support for Oracle Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 9.
    Main: Added more Linux OS subtypes
    Host Services: Fixed Guest Properties service crash under rare circumstance
    Linux Host and Guest: Fixed few "field-spanning write" kernel warnings (bugs #21410 and #21862)
    Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for RHEL 8.9 and 9.3 kernel
    Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for kernel 6.4
    Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for OpenSUSE 15.5 kernel
    Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernels 6.5 and 6.6
    Linux Guest Additions: Added version reporting for "rcvboxadd status-kernel" and "rcvboxadd status-user" commands
    BIOS: Restored support for ISA SCSI HBAs in the BIOS (bug #21736)

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Changelog 6.1.48

    VMM: Introduced additional improvements in Split Lock Detection feature of recent Intel CPUs on Linux hosts (bug #20180)
    Audio: Fixed switching host audio devices on Windows hosts using the WAS backend (bugs #20431, #21517, #20630 and #20723)
    VRDP: Added general improvements
    Host Services: Fixed Guest Properties service crash under rare circumstance
    Linux Host and Guest: Fixed few "field-spanning write" kernel warnings (bugs #21410 and #21862)
    Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for RHEL 8.9 and 9.3 kernel
    Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for kernel 6.4
    Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for OpenSUSE 15.5 kernel
    Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernels 6.5 and 6.6

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Changelog

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

    VMM: Fixed a guru meditation executing nested-guests using the KVM hypervisor in the guest on Intel hosts (bug #21805)
    VMM: Fixed Linux VM crash on some recent AMD models
    USB: Fixed issue when EHCI controller was mishandling short packets (bug #20726)
    Audio: Introduced general improvements
    VBoxManage and vboximg-mount: Updated usage information and documentation (bugs #21895, #21992 and #21993)
    Guest Control: Fixed starting Windows guest processes in the correct Windows session (7.0 regression)
    Linux Host: Fixed issue when VBox.sh was deleting wrong VBoxSVC IPC socket when VM was started using sudo (bug #20928)
    Linux Host: Fixed kernel modules build failure when using GCC 13.2
    macOS Host: Fixed issue when App Nap was affecting VM performance (bug #18678)
    Linux Host and Guest: Added fixes related to UBSAN warnings discovered on recent Linux distributions (bug #21877)
    Linux Host and Guest: Added possibility to prevent kernel module from automatic loading during system boot by adding mod_name.disabled=1 into kernel command line
    Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for kernel 6.9 (bug #22033)
    Linux Host and Guest: Fixed mk_pte warning introduced in kernel 6.6 (bug #21898)
    Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.8
    Windows Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in graphics area

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ATTENTION: PLEASE REFRAIN FROM UPGRADING TO 7.0.16 FOR NOW. THIS RELEASE HAS AN ISSUE WHICH MIGHT CAUSE HOST OS CRASH WHEN VM IS CONFIGURED TO USE BRIDGED OR HOST-ONLY NETWORKING. WE WILL SEND AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAILING LISTS WHEN FIX WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD. Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions