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Changelog

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

    GUI: mouse events did not reach host windows behind the transparent VM window (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #16246)
    Audio: fixed accidental crashes when using the AC'97 sound emulation (bug #16959)
    Audio: fixed crash when default input or output devices have changed (bugs #16968, #16969, #17004)
    Audio: fixed recording when using the ALSA backend
    Audio: fixed handle leak when using the OSS backend
    E1000: fixed a crash related to VLAN traffic over internal network (5.1.26 regression; bug #16960)
    NAT: apply --natbindip1 to TCP connections (bug #16478)
    OVF: when importing an appliance with XHCI controller, don't add an OHCI controller.
    Mac OS X hosts: fixed a GUI crash if Spotlight is used from file dialogs (5.1.20 regression; bugs #16935, #16953)
    Linux hosts: fixed creating fixed sized VDI images (bug #17010)
    Linux hosts / guests: fixes for Linux 4.4 of openSUSE Leap 42.3 (bug #16966)
    Bridged networking: align outgoing packet at word boundary, preventing Windows host crash in MsLbfoProvider.
    Linux Additions: kernel drm driver support for custom EL7 Linux 3.10 kernel
    Solaris Additions: hide an informational message on the bootup console

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Whats new:>>

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
Storage: mark IDE0/IDE1 as initialized in the device emulation to repair EFI boot with ICH9 (see this posting)
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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Changelog

VirtualBox 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)
Added experimental audio support for video recording

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

GUI: Virtual Media Manager rework allowing to manage media attributes, like size, location, type and description
GUI: Host-only Network Manager implemented to simplify managing corresponding networks and their attributes
GUI: Snapshot Pane rework allowing to manage snapshot attributes, like name and description; reworked snapshot details which looks more clear, corresponds to VM Details pane and reflects current VM state difference according to last snapshot taken
GUI: Audio settings extended with possibility to enable/disable audio input/output; corresponding changed were done to Audio and Video Capture settings pages; VM Devices menu and status-bar extended with corresponding actions and indicator as well.
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
Audio: implemented ability to enable or disable audio input/output on-the-fly
Storage: implemented support for CUE/BIN images as CD/DVD media including multiple tracks
Storage: implemented support for the controller memory buffer feature for NVMe
Storage: first milestone of the I/O stack redesign landed
EFI: better video mode handling
E1000: Windows XP freeze when booting with unplugged cable
many unlisted fixes and improvements

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Release Notes

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
• GUI: translation updates
• GUI: Fixed double mouse cursor when using mouse integration without Guest Additions,
actually a Qt 5.6 bug fixed with QT 5.6.3 (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #15610)
• Solaris hosts: allow increasing MTU size for host-only adapter to 9706 bytes to support
jumbo frames
• Linux hosts: glibc 2.26 compile fix
• Windows Additions: 3D related crash fix (bugs #17082, #17092)

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Changelog

This is a major update. The following major new features were added:

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)
Added experimental audio support for video recording

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

VMM: fixed reason for recent Linux kernels on also recent CPU models warning about "XSAVE consistency problem"
GUI: Virtual Media Manager rework allowing to manage media attributes, like size, location, type and description
GUI: Host-only Network Manager implemented to simplify managing corresponding networks and their attributes
GUI: Snapshot Pane rework allowing to manage snapshot attributes, like name and description; reworked snapshot details which looks more clear, corresponds to VM Details pane and reflects current VM state difference according to last snapshot taken
GUI: Audio settings extended with possibility to enable/disable audio input/output; corresponding changed were done to Audio and Video Capture settings pages; VM Devices menu and status-bar extended with corresponding actions and indicator as well
GUI: improvements with accessibility support
GUI: Fixed double mouse cursor when using mouse integration without Guest Additions, actually a Qt 5.6 bug fixed with QT 5.6.3 (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #15610)
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
Audio: implemented ability to enable or disable audio input / output on-the-fly
Storage: implemented support for CUE/BIN images as CD/DVD media including multiple tracks
Storage: implemented support for the controller memory buffer feature for NVMe
Storage: first milestone of the I/O stack redesign landed
E1000: Fix for Windows XP freeze when booting with unplugged cable
NAT network: do not skip some port forwarding setup when multiple VMs are active (Windows hosts only; bug #17041)
Serial: fixed extremely rare misbehavior on VM poweroff
EFI: better video mode handling, supporting custom video modes and easier configuration (bug #6783)
BIOS: properly report floppy logical sectors per track for unusual formats
BIOS: update ATA disk parameter table vectors only if there is actually a corresponding ATA disk attached
PXE: speed up booting by better handling pending packets when the link is not up yet
VBoxManage: handle CPUID sub-leaf overrides better
Windows Additions: fix several 3D related crashes
Solaris hosts: allow increasing MTU size for host-only adapter to 9706 bytes to support jumbo frames
Linux Additions: on systems using systemd, make sure that only the Guest Additions timesync service is active
many unlisted fixes and improvements

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The following items were fixed and/or added:

User interface: various improvements for high resolution screens
User interface: added functionality to duplicate optical and floppy images
User interface: various improvements for the virtual media manager
VMM: fixed emulation so that Plan 9 guests can start once more (5.1.0 regression)
Storage: fixed regression breaking iSCSI (bug #17196)
Audio: added HDA support for more exotic guests (e.g. Haiku)
Serial: fixed hanging I/O when using named pipes on Windows (5.2.0 regression; bug #17227)
Serial: fixed broken communication with certain devices on Linux hosts
USB/OHCI: improved behavior so that the controller state after a VM reset is closer to the initial state after VM start
EFI: fixed HFS+ driver which in rare cases failed to access most files on a volume
Shared clipboard: fixed hang with OS X host and Linux guest (bug #15782)
Linux hosts: fixed kernel module compilation and start failures with Linux kernel 4.14 (bug #17267)
X11 hosts: better handle WM_CLASS setting (bug #12534)
Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14 (bug #12534)
Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14
Linux guests: fixed various 5.2.0 regressions (bug #17163)
Bridged networking: fixed duplicate EtherType in VLAN/priority tags on Linux (5.2.0 regression; bug #17277)

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Changelog

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

    User interface: Adjusting desktop file for X11 window managers (bug #17312)
    User interface: various high resolution display adjustments
    Audio: fixed SB16 volume handling (5.2 regression)
    Audio: various fixes
    USB/OHCI: fixed a problem where OHCI emulation might sporadically drop data transfers
    Linux hosts: fixed screen corruption when the host screen changes and a virtual machine window is maximized
    X11 Guest Additions: fixed a hang at the GNOME Shell login screen with 3D enabled (5.2 regression, bugs #17189 and #17190)

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Changelog

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

    GUI: fixed occasional screen corruption when host screen resolutio n is changed
    User interface: increase proposed disk size when creating new VMs for Windows 7 and newer
    User interface: various improvements for high resolution screens
    VMM: Fixed problems using 256MB VRAM in raw-mode VMs
    Audio: implemented support for audio playback and recording for macOS guests
    Audio: further timing improvements for Windows 10 guests
    Linux hosts: fixed problem accessing mini-toolbar under XFCE (bug #17280, contributed by Dusan Gallo)

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Changelog

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

    GUI: fixed occasional screen corruption when host screen resolution is changed
    User interface: increase proposed disk size when creating new VMs for Windows 7 and newer
    Serial: fixed broken communication with certain devices on Linux hosts
    VMM: Fixed problems using 256MB VRAM in raw-mode VMs
    Audio: added HDA support for more exotic guests (e.g. Haiku)
    Audio: fixed playback with ALSA backend (5.1.28 regression)
    USB/OHCI: fixed a problem where OHCI emulation might sporadically drop data transfers
    Windows hosts: VirtualBoxManager in the Python API no longer calls CoUninitialize when destroyed
    Linux hosts: fixed VBoxNetFlt kernel module compilation failure with Linux kernel 4.14
    Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14

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Changelog

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

• VMM: added support for FSGSBASE, PCID, INVPCID CPU features for guests
• VMM: fixed EMM386 issue with detecting suitable page frame base (bug #10022)
• Front end: Linux: prevent VM window from jumping and auto-resizing to tiny size after
resizing it on HiDPI screen
• Front end: Linux: fixed seamless regression caused by wm_class functionality (bugs
#12534, #17304)
• Front end: switched to https downloads
• Front end: fixed crash while opening New machine wizard (s.a. forums topic 86592)
• Audio: added support for distinguishing recording sources in the PulseAudio mixer on the
host when multiple VMs are running
• Audio: various fixes for the DirectSound backend
• Video recording: added better file seeking support and fixed playback of recorded files with
certain players (e.g. Firefox)
• Audio: various fixes for Windows guest surround setups
• Audio: various fixes for HDA emulation
• Serial: fixed an issue where the serial port parameters in the emulation and host serial port
got out of sync (bug #17116)
• Storage: fixed overwriting certain INQUIRY data for the DVD/CD drive attached to a AHCI
controller
• Storage: fixed handling VMDK images created by Amazon EC2 VM export
• Network: fixed PXE boot regression in e1000
• Network: Added a workaround for older guests which do not enable bus mastering for the
virtio PCI device
• 3D: add environment variable to configure presenting 3D content on main thread (see bug
#13653)
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• Windows hosts: fixed indiscriminate binding of NDIS5 bridged driver, that caused PPPOE
malfunction (bugs #16407, #17489)
• Windows guests: fixed incorrect function error when using shared folders in certain appli-
cations (bug #14118)
• Linux guests: Linux 4.15 support (bugs #17311, #17320, #17282)
• Linux guests: fixed black screen when 3D enabled in guests (bug #17463, 5.2.6 regression)
• Linux guests: suppress setuid and setgid in shared folders

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Changelog

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

    VMM: Added support for FSGSBASE, PCID, INVPCID CPU features for guests
    VMM: Fixed EMM386 issue with detecting suitable page frame base (bug #10022)
    Front end: switched to https downloads
    Serial: fixed an issue where the serial port parameters in the emulation and host serial port got out of sync (bug #17116)
    Storage: fixed handling VMDK images created by Amazon EC2 VM export
    Audio: various fixes for HDA emulation
    3D: add environment variable to configure presenting 3D content on main thread (see bug #13653)
    Windows hosts: fixed indiscriminate binding of NDIS5 bridged driver, that caused PPPOE malfunction (bugs #16407, #17489)
    Linux guests: Linux 4.15 support (bugs #17311, #17320, #17282)
    Linux guests: fixed black screen when 3D enabled in guests (bug #17463, 5.2.6 regression)
    Linux guests: suppress setuid and setgid in shared folders

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

    VMM: Fixed missing NULL pointer check in MMIO code
    Storage: fixed having multiple NVMe controllers with ICH9 enabled (5.2.0 regression)
    Network: fixed wireless detection regression when bridging to adapters with unbound IP protocols (bug #17543)
    Network: fixed VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND when bridging to some adapters on Windows hosts (possibly related bugs #15294, #15060, #13481)
    Audio: Fixed interrupt storm in FreeBSD guests with HDA (bug #17219)
    Keyboard: Introduced a small delay to fix old software which expects to be able to read an incoming scan code more than once (bug #17592)
    Windows installer: Removed the "Ignore" action in the case the current VBox installation is still running, as the (successful) update will not work until a host reboot is performed
    NAT: Handle nameserver 0.0.0.0 which is a valid setting (bug #17584)
    BIOS: INT 15h/87h service must disable A20 gate when done
    Linux Guest Additions: fix a hang starting KDE Plasma

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

    VMM: Fixed missing NULL pointer check in MMIO code.
    Network: fixed VERR_INTNET_FLT_IF_NOT_FOUND when bridging to some adapters on Windows hosts (possibly related bugs #15294, #15060, #13481)

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Changelog

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

    Serial: fixed possible data corruption when sending data under certain circumstances
    Video recording: fixed starting / stopping recording under certain circumstances
    Linux hosts: support Linux 4.17 changes. Thank you Larry Finger
    Linux guests: support Linux 4.16 and EL 7.5 kernels (bugs #17676 and #17678)
    Linux guests: 3D fixes for recent guests (bug #17623)

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