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

    VMM: several fixes
    GUI: fixed screenshot if the VM is started in separate mode
    GUI: fixed issue with double-click/opening registered file types (.vbox and .vbox-extpack) on Mac OS X (bug #15648)
    GUI: fixed a bug which made it impossible close some error/warning messages using the close button
    GUI: weakened the control over the VM window behavior allowing to resize it across multiple screens and to use in Snap Assist techniques
    GUI: jump to the second tab of the session information window (5.1.0 regression)
    GUI: fix for Alt-Tab
    Storage: fixed creating fixed size VHD images (bug #15601)
    Storage: fixed a hang during power off if the VM was suspended before and a NVMe controller is configured
    USB: fixed a crash under certain conditions
    Audio: make AC'97 volume control work again (5.1.0 regression; bug #15598)
    Audio: fixed rare VM hangs when using AC'97 emulation
    Audio: SB16 fixes
    EFI: fixed access to devices attached to SATA port 2 and higher (bug #15607)
    OVA: fix for checking certain signatures
    OVA: fixed MAC address generation for appliances created by VirtualBox (5.1.0 regression; bug #15623)
    API: fixed audio settings handling for older config files (bug #15626)
    API: fixed truncation of USB product/vendor IDs on Linux hosts (5.1.0 regression; bug #15644)
    API: fixed VRDP with authentication (bug #15653)
    API: don't crash if there is no graphics controller configured (bug #15628)
    Linux hosts: fixed EL5 builds (bug #15634)
    non-Windows hosts: fixed a crash during shutdown under rare circumstances (bug #15568)
    Linux Additions: fixed SELinux issue which prevented certain Linux guests to work in 3D mode (bug #15574)
    User Manual: updates

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GUI: show actual VM uptime in the session information window
Audio: re-enabled speakers for Mac OS X guests (5.1.0 regression; bug #15611)
Audio: fixed crashes under certain conditions
USB: fixed a hang under certain conditions
USB: fixed a hanging guest under certain conditions
PIIX4: implemented dummy SMBus controller to prevent annoying Linux kernel warnings about uninitialized SMBus base address
NVMe: several fixes to improve stability, fixed a crash while saving a VM state
VMDK: Fixed an issue creating fixed size images with certain sizes and the Split2G option enabled
VHDX: fixed cloning images with VBoxManage clonehd
Storage: Fixed broken bandwidth limitation when the limit is very low
EFI: fixed sending debug messages in the EFI firmware if a serial port is enabled
OVF: when importing appliances, make sure that the version of the embedded VirtualBox-specific settings is processed, to get the default settings handling right
VBoxManage: Don't try to set the medium type if there is no change
Linux installer: fixed some scripting issues
Linux installer: fixed a path issue on certain Linux distributions
Windows hosts: fixed corrupted mouse pointers with some Linux and Solaris guests
Linux Additions: made the video driver work on 32-bit guests with large video memory sizes
Linux Additions: made the video driver work on kernel 4.7 and later
Linux Additions: converted a failure message to an informational one when drivers could not be stopped during upgrade
Linux Additions: made the video driver work around an X server bug which cause screen refresh to stop
Windows Additions: auto-resizing fixes for Windows 10 guests
Windows Additions: fixed VBoxTray problems with Windows 2000

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

    GUI: fixed issue with opening '.vbox' files and it's aliases
    GUI: keyboard grabbing fixes (bugs #15771 and #15745)
    GUI: fix for passing through Ctrl + mouse-click (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #15714)
    GUI: fixed automatic deletion of extension pack files (bugs #11352 and #14742)
    USB: fixed showing unknown device instead of the manufacturer or product description under certain circumstances (5.1.0 regression; bug #15764)
    XHCI: another fix for a hanging guest under certain conditions as result of the fix for bug #15747, this time for Windows 7 guests
    Serial: fixed high CPU usage with certain USB to serial converters on Linux hosts (bug #7796)
    Storage: fixed attaching stream optimized VMDK images (bug #14764)
    Storage: reject image variants which are unsupported by the backend (bug #7227)
    Storage: fixed loading saved states created with VirtualBox 5.0.10 and older when using a SCSI controller (bug #15865)
    Storage: fixed broken NVMe emulation if the host I/O cache setting is enabled
    Storage: fixed using multiple NVMe controllers if ICH9 is used
    NVMe: fixed a crash during reset which could happen under certain circumstances
    Audio: fixed microphone input (5.1.2 regression; bugs #14386 and #15802)
    Audio: fixed crashes under certain conditions (5.1.0 regression; bug #15887 and others)
    Audio: fixed recording with the ALSA backend (5.1 regression)
    Audio: fixed stream access mode with OSS backend (5.1 regression, thanks to Jung-uk Kim)
    E1000: do also return masked bits when reading the ICR register, this fixes booting from iPXE (5.1.2 regression; bug #15846)
    BIOS: fixed 4bpp scanline calculation (bug #15787)
    API: relax the check for the version attribute in OVF/OVA appliances (bug #15856)
    Windows hosts: fixed crashes when terminating the VM selector or other VBox COM clients (bug #15726 and others)
    Linux Installer: fixed path to the documentation in .rpm packages (5.1.0 regression)
    Linux Installer: fixed the vboxdrv.sh script to prevent an SELinux complaint (bug #15816)
    Linux hosts: don't use 32-bit legacy capabilities
    Linux Additions: Linux 4.8 fix for the kernel display driver (bugs #15890 and #15896)
    Linux Additions: don't load the kernel modules provided by the Linux distribution but load the kernel modules from the official Guest Additions package instead (bug #15324)
    Linux Additions: fix dynamic resizing problems in recent Linux guests (bug #15875)
    User Manual: fixed error in the VBoxManage chapter for the getextradata enumerate example (bug #15862)

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Changelog 5.1.8

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

    GUI: fixed keyboard shortcut handling regressions (Mac OS X hosts only; bugs #15937 and #15938)
    GUI: fixed keyboard handling regression for separate UI (Windows hosts only; bugs #15928)
    NAT: don't exceed the maximum number of "search" suffixes. Patch from bug #15948.
    NAT: fixed parsing of port-forwarding rules with a name which contains a slash (bug #16002)
    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.
    Bridged Network: prevent flooding syslog with packet allocation error messages (bug #15569)
    Audio: now using Audio Queues on Mac OS X hosts
    Audio: fixed recording with the PulseAudio backend (5.1 regression)
    Audio: various bugfixes
    Snapshots: fixed regression in 5.1.4 for deleting snapshots with several disks (bug #15831)
    Snapshots: crash fix and better error reporting when snapshot deletion failed
    Storage: some fixes for the NVMe emulation with Windows guests
    API: fixed initialization of SAS controllers (bug #15972)
    Build system: make it possible to build VBox on systems which default to Python 3
    Windows hosts: detect certain cases of REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG errors and print a helpful error message
    Windows hosts: adapted to changes in Windows 10 build 14901 (bug #15944)
    Windows hosts: better support for processor groups on Windows 7 and later which is required on certain hosts with many CPUs
    Windows installer / Additions: added option to prevent creating of start menu items (bug #15922)
    Windows Additions / VGA: if the guest's power management turns a virtual screen off, blank the corresponding VM window rather than hide the window
    Windows Additions: fixed a generic bug which could lead to freezing shared folders (bug #15662)
    Linux hosts / guests: fix for kernels with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK set (bug #16020)
    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)
    Linux Additions: added depmod overrides for the vboxguest and vboxsf kernel modules to fix conflicts with modules shipped by certain Linux distributions
    X11 Additions: disable 3D on the guest if the host does not provide enough capabilities (bug #15860)

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Changelog 5.0.2.8

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

    NAT: Don't exceed the maximum number of "search" suffixes. Patch from bug #15948.
    NAT: fixed parsing of port-forwarding rules with a name which contains a slash (bug #16002)
    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.
    Bridged Network: prevent flooding syslog with packet allocation error messages (bug #15569)
    USB: fixed a possible crash when detaching a USB device
    Audio: fixes for recording (Mac OS X hosts only)
    Audio: now using Audio Queues on Mac OS X hosts
    OVF: improve importing of VMs created by VirtualBox 5.1
    VHDX: fixed cloning images with VBoxManage clonehd (bug #14288)
    Storage: Fixed broken bandwidth limitation when the limit is very low (bug #14982)
    Serial: Fixed high CPU usage with certain USB to serial converters on Linux hosts (bug #7796)
    BIOS: fixed 4bpp scanline calculation (bug #15787)
    VBoxManage: Don't try to set the medium type if there is no change (bug #13850)
    API: fixed initialization of SAS controllers (bug #15972)
    Linux hosts: don't use 32-bit legacy capabilities
    Linux hosts / guests: fix for kernels with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK set (bug #16020)
    Linux Additions: several fixes for X11 guests running non-root X servers
    Linux Additions: fix for Linux 4.7 (bug #15769)
    Linux Additions: fix for the display kmod driver with Linux 4.8 (bugs #15890 and #15896)
    Windows Additions: auto-resizing fixes for Windows 10 guests (bug #15257)
    Windows Additions: fixes for arranging the guest screens in multi-screen scenarios
    Windows Additions / VGA: if the guest's power management turns a virtual screen off, blank the corresponding VM window rather than hide the VM window
    Windows Additions: fixed a generic bug which could lead to freezing shared folders (bug #15662)

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

    GUI: the USB filter settings dialog should allow to specify the USB revision in hexadecimal format (bug #15400)
    GUI: fixed crash on certain hosts when pressing certain key combinations (Windows hosts only; bug #15719)
    GUI: fixed issue with updating the available-geometry on host-screen work-area resize
    GUI: don't crash / hang on certain environments if accessibility support is enabled
    GUI: fixed various issues in Unscaled HiDPI Output mode (bug #15707)
    GUI: extend the VM Input menu with Print Screen-related actions
    GUI: improved handling of inserting the Guest Additions ISO image by trying all available optical drives rather than only the first one and by not asking the user if he wants to force unmounting (which doesn't work in most cases anyway)
    API: default to RTC using UTC for Solaris 11 guests
    Settings: be less restrictive when reading a VM configuration containing a host-only adapter without an interface name
    Storage: fixed resizing VDI images resulting in an unbootable image under certain circumstances (bug #15983)
    NAT: fixed several 5.1.8 regressions on Mac OS X and Windows hosts (bug #16084)
    Audio: fixed a few 5.1.x regressions by using the audio code from 5.0.x until the audio overhaul is completed
    VBoxManage: fixed documentation of the storagectl command (bug #15971)
    Build system: another fix for building VirtualBox on systems which default to Python 3
    Windows hosts: hardening fix for Windows 10 build 14971 (bug #16202)
    Windows Additions: properly start the VirtualBox guest services even if the guest user name contains special characters (bug #15982)
    Solaris Additions: fixed preemptible mouse notification callback being executed under a spinlock for Solaris guests
    Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.9 fixes (bugs #16155 and #16064)
    Linux Additions: fixed Linux kernel module override rule (thanks Mark Furneaux)

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

    VMM: fixed VERR_IEM_ASPECT_NOT_IMPLEMENTED Guru Meditations with certain Linux guests if KVM paravirtualization is enabled (5.1 regression; bugs #15613 and #16251)
    VMM: fixed VERR_VMX_UNABLE_TO_START_VM Guru Meditations under rare conditions
    GUI: prevent a crash under certain conditions if the VM is terminated very early
    GUI: fixed certain keyboard capture issues (5.1.10 regression; Mac OS X hosts only; bug #16150)
    GUI: fixed dragging guest windows in seamless mode with the keyboard captured (X11 hosts only; bug #15837)
    GUI: fixed a problem where the new version detected dialog was covered by the appliance import dialog (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #16238)
    Storage: fixed NVMe reset processing when doing rmmod nvme; modprobe nvme in a Linux guest (bug #16080)
    Storage: fixed creating a snapshot when the VM is running and an NVMe controller is present
    Storage: fixed a problem with the LsiLogic SCSI controller where requests could be lost with SMP guests
    E1000: fixed "cable disconnected" issue (Mac OS X guests only; 5.1.10 regression; bug #16260)
    E1000: fixed "TX unit hang" issue (Linux guests only; 5.1.10 regression; bug #16221)
    Parallel ports: fixed port enumeration on Windows host (bugs #15872 and #16127)
    API: don't crash when sanitizing certain VM names (bug #16299)
    Linux hosts: automatically disable asynchronous I/O on Linux 2.6.18 kernels as high I/O load may trigger kernel oopses on these kernels if this feature is enabled
    Linux hosts / guests: Linux 2.6.28 compile fix (bug #16267)
    Linux hosts: compile Linux 4.9 compile fix (bug #16286)
    Linux Additions: warn the user about a known bug with older Linux guests (e.g. Debian 7) requiring manual work to get 3D working (bug #15319)
    Linux Additions: fix the graphics driver build with Linux 4.10 and later (bug #16298)
    Windows Additions: fixed a crash in the WDDM driver under certain conditions

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

VMM: fixed emulation of certain instructions for 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts
VMM: properly handle certain MSRs for 64-bit guests on ancient CPUs without VT-x support for MSR bitmaps (bug #13886)
GUI: fixed a crash with multimonitor setups under certain conditions
GUI: allow cloning of snapshots when the VM is running
NVMe: fixed compatibility with the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK, bug #16368)
VBoxSVC: fixed a crash under rare circumstances
VBoxManage: added a sanity check to modifymedium --resize to prevent users from resizing their hard disk from 1GB to 1PB (bug #16311)
Windows hosts: another fix for recent Windows 10 hosts

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The following items were fixed and/or added:

VMM: don't access the MSR_IA32_SMM_MONITOR_CTL MSR if dual-monitor treatment is not available (KVM workaround, bug #14965)
VMM: another fix for handling certain MSRs on ancient CPUs without VT-x support for MSR bitmaps
VMM: fixed VERR_SSM_LOAD_CPUID_MISMATCH errors when restoring a saved state with SMP guests on hosts without the CPUID/HTT bit set (bug #16428)
VMM: fixed a bug in call gate emulation
VMM: FWAIT instruction fix
VMM: fixed a sporadic guest hang under certain conditions
GUI: hide the mini-toolbar from the taskbar and the pager on certain X11 hosts
GUI: better error handling on the global settings / network / host-only / DHCP server settings
GUI: fixes for full-screen with multiple screens
Host-only Network: fixed host-only adapter creation issue preventing VirtualBox installation on Windows 10 hosts (bug #16379)
NAT network: fixed two potential crashes in the DHCP server
ICH9: fixed incorrect initialization of the primary bus for PCI bridges (5.1.14 regression)
Storage: LsiLogic fix for Windows 10
USB: fixed not being able to attach certain USB devices having invalid characters in the device strings (5.0.18 regression; bug #15956)
USB: several fixes for the USB/IP support (bug #16462)
VBoxSVC: fixed another crash during shutdown under rare circumstances
VBoxSVC: fixed a stack overflow on (Windows debug builds only; bug #16409)
OVF: when importing an appliance handle more than 10 network adapters if the OVA was created by VirtualBox (bug #16401)
OVF: fixes for exporting and importing appliances with many disks (bug #16402)
VBoxManage: fixed regression with modifyhd --resize (bug #16311)
rdesktop-vrdp: source code tarball fixes
Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.11 compile fixes (bug #16506)
Windows Additions: fixed a crash with recent Windows 10 builds if 3D is disabled (bug #15973)

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•Shared Folders: fixed case insensitive filename access (5.1.16 regression; Windows guests only; bug #16549)
•Shared Folders: fixed access to long pathes (5.1.16 regression; Windows guests only; bugs #14651, #16564)
•API: fixed snapshot handling of medium attachments and PCI device attachments (bug #16545)
•API: make 32-bit Windows guests in raw mode boot again if the ICH9 chipset is used (5.1.16 regression)
•VBoxBugReport: fixed VM log collection issue
•Linux hosts: fixed autostart service script (bug #14955)
•Windows Additions: fixed automatic logins for Windows Vista and newer (5.1.4 regression; bug #15904)

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

GUI: don't check if the Extension Pack is up-to-date if the user is about to install a new Extension Pack (bug #16317)
GUI: fixed a possible crash when switching a multi-monitor VM into full-screen or seamless mode
GUI: fixed non-literal shortcuts if the keyboard is not captured (5.1.10 regression; Windows hosts only)
GUI: several mini-toolbar fixes in full-screen / seamless mode (X11 hosts only)
GUI: don't crash on restoring defaults in the appliance import dialog
Windows Additions: another fix for automatic logins for Windows Vista and newer (bug #15904)
ICH9: fix for Windows guests with a huge amount (>64G) of guest memory
BIOS: fixed El Torito hard disk emulation geometry calculation (thanks Dwight Engen)

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

    VMM: fixed VERR_IEM_INSTR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED Guru Meditation under certain conditions (5.1 regression; mostly Mac OS X hosts; bugs #15693, #15801, #16274, #16569, #16663)
    VMM: fixed software virtualization on Solaris hosts (5.1.20 regression)
    Storage: fixed a potential hang under rare circumstances (bug #16677)
    Storage: fixed a potential crash under rare circumstances (asynchronous I/O disabled or during maintenance file operations like merging snapshots)
    Linux hosts: make the ALSA backend work again as well as loading the GL libraries on certain hosts (5.1.20 regression; bugs #16667, #16693)
    Linux Additions: fixed mount.vboxsf symlink problem (5.1.20 regression; bug #16670)

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VMM: mask the VME CPUID capability on AMD Ryzen processors for now to make certain guests works, for example Windows XP
VMM: emulate more SSE2 instructions
VMM: properly clear the TF and AC flags when dispatching real-mode interrupts
GUI: fixes to make the mini-toolbar work with recent versions of KDE / Plasma (bug #16325)
GUI: fixed a potential crash when a VM with multiple screens is running in full screen / seamless mode and a host screen is removed, for example when connecting to the host via RDP
GUI: fixed initial size hints for guests which set intermediate sizes before responding (bug #16593)
GUI: prevent stopped screen updates or black screen on reboot in a multi-screen setup under certain conditions
Audio: many improvements for Windows 10 guests (bugs #15189, #15925, #16170, #16682, #16794 and others)
Storage: fixed possible crash when using Intels SPDK
API: use the correct file name of the VM machine state if the VM settings directory is renamed, for example during grouping / ungrouping a VM (bugs #16075 and #16745)
API: return the correct error code if powering up a VM fails
API: video recording did not automatically start at VM start when enabled in the VM settings (bug #16803)
API: when relocating a medium, check that the target path is fully qualified
EFI: fix for VMs with more than 3504MB RAM (bug #11103)
Host-only adapter: correctly determine IPv4 netmasks on Windows hosts (bug #16826)
NAT network: properly do the refcounting for starting / stopping the NAT / DHCP services if the NAT network is changed while the adapter network connection type is anything else but NAT network
VBoxManage: fixed controlvm videocapfile (bug #16779)
Windows hosts: fixed crashes if driver verifier is enabled (bug #15741)
Linux / Mac OS X hosts: more fixes for loading shared libraries (5.1.20 regression; bugs #16778, #16693)
Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.12 fixes (bugs #16725, #16800)
Linux hosts / guests: reduce the kernel stack consumption for Linux kernels with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK defined
Linux hosts / guests: fixes for kernel modules built with gcc-7 (bug #16772)
Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.13 fix (bug #16887)
Linux hosts: don't depend on net-tools on newer distributions as this package is deprecated in favour of iproute (bug #16764)
Linux hosts: make 2D video acceleration available for older Linux distributions (5.1 regression; bug #16858)
Linux Additions: fix for dynamic resizing with Oracle Linux 6 with UEK4
Linux Additions: make Fedora 25 and 26 Alpha work when 3D pass-through is enabled
Linux Additions: no longer recommend removing distribution- installed Additions if they are updated to our guidelines

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

    VMM: reset the TSC on VM reset to work around a Windows bug (bug #16643)
    Audio: fixed memory leak when enabled with VRDP connections (5.1.24 regression; bug #16928)
    Audio: fixed creation of too many sound sinks on Linux hosts when using the PulseAudio backend (bug #16938)
    Audio: implemented record gain registers for AC'97 emulation; those are needed for newer Ubuntu guests which rely on those when controlling gain and muting the recording (capturing) levels
    Storage: fixed hang when using the emulated NVMe controller with the SPDK (bug #16945)
    Mouse: double click was not working with a precision touchpad (bug #14632)
    Linux hosts: properly bring up host-only network interfaces with iproute (5.1.24 regression; bug #16911)
    Linux hosts: provide Python 3 libraries for deb/rpm packages
    Windows hosts: make it possible to use host-only networking without having bridged networking installed
    Windows guests: fixed automatic logons for Vista and newer Windows guests (5.1.24 regression; bug #16921)

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Release Notes

irtualBox 5.2 will be a new minor release. Here is an incomplete list of changes:

    VM export to Oracle Cloud (OPC)
    Unattended guest installation (bug #5810; see the manual for more information)
    Overhauled VM selector GUI (improved tools VM / global tools handling, new icons)

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

    GUI: improvements with accessibility support
    Audio: implemented (optional) device enumeration support for audio backends
    Audio: implemented support for host device callbacks (e.g. when adding or removing an audio device)
    Audio: HDA emulation now uses asynchronous data processing in separate threads
    EFI: better video mode handling
    many unlisted fixes and improvements

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Here is an incomplete list of changes since version 5.2 Beta 1:

    GUI: permanently save tools layout
    GUI: don't allow to decrease the size of a medium as this is not implemented (see this posting)
    Audio: fixed distortions when using the PulseAudio backend
    Audio: fixed recording when using the ALSA backend
    Linux Additions: support RHEL 7.4 (see this posting)
    Mac OS X hosts: fixed a GUI crash if Spotlight is used from file dialogs (5.1.20 regression; bugs 16935, 16593)

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