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

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

    User interface: fixed a segmentation fault when accessing the interface through VNC (bug #16348)
    User interface: X11: handle repeating keys on the host system correctly (bug #1296, previously fixed, 5.1.0 regression)
    VMM: Fixed emulation of the undocumented SALC instruction
    VMM: Fixed emulation of so-called "huge unreal mode" (bug #17744); this in practice only affected Intel CPUs with VT-x without unrestricted execution.
    Keyboard: The PS/2 keyboard emulation has been corrected to not queue partial scan code sequences (bug #17709); this problem was likely only visible on Linux hosts due to losing the fix for bug #1296
    Storage: Fixed CUE file support to correct REM keyword parsing (bug #17783)
    USB: Fixed a problem where the emulated xHCI device under very rare circumstances failed to report an empty isochronous transfer ring error, causing the transfers on the corresponding endpoint to stop.
    Audio: fixed Linux kernel log flooding (bug #17759)
    Apple hosts: make kernel driver load with Mac OS Mojave pre-release (bug #17805).
    Linux guests: made vboxvideo driver build with kernel 4.17 (bug #17801) and with pre-3.14 and EL 7.1 kernels (bug #17771)

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

    OVF: case insensitive comparison of manifest attribute values, to improve compatibility (bug #17357)
    Linux: build for openSUSE 15.0 (bug #17554)
    Linux: various build fixes for distribution builds, thank you Gianfranco Costmagna

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

    VMM: See user manual.
    VMM: fix loading with recent binutils and self-built versions of VirtualBox (bug #17851)
    NAT: fix --nataliasmode sameports which is a valid setting (bug #13000)
    VRDP: fixed VM process termination on RDP client disconnect if 3D is enabled for the virtual machine

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Changelog

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

    VMM: fixed task switches triggered by INTn instruction (bug #17979)
    Storage: fixed connecting to certain iSCSI targets (bug #17507)
    Storage: fixed handling of flush requests when configured to be ignored when the host I/O cache is used (bug #17573)
    Drag and drop: implemented support for UNC paths (bug #17146)
    Drag and drop: fixed resuming operation when restoring from a saved state (bug #17649)
    Drag and drop: fixed copying files with long file names (> 248 characters) from guests to Windows hosts (bug #17447)
    Drag and drop: fixed handling files with Unicode names on Windows guests (bug #15501)
    Drag and drop: fixed copying empty (0-byte) files to / from guests (bugs #14863 + #17443)
    Drag and drop: fixed copying over files from hosts to Linux guests (bug #16025)
    Networking: restore connectivity for guests bridged to host adapters that were unavailable temporarily (Windows hosts, bug #17090)
    Guest Control: fixed hang when using --wait-stdout and/or --wait-stderr (bug #17386). Needs updating Guest Additions
    Video recording: fixed starting video recording on VM power up (bug #17307)
    Linux Additions: various build fixes for kernel modules on recent distributions, and made sure modules end up in initramfs files
    Linux Additions: build fixes for 4.19, thank you Larry Finger
    Linux Additions: various small fixes for video driver

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Release Notes

VirtualBox 6.0 will be a new major release. Here is an incomplete list of changes:

    OCI Integration: implemented support for exporting a VM to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    Improvents in GUI design

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

    Audio: implemented support for attaching / detaching VRDE audio drivers at runtime
    Guest Control: various new APIs and features were implemented (see SDK documentation for more)
    Networking: Added a workaround for older guests which do not enable bus mastering for the virtio PCI device
    many unlisted fixes and improvements

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Changelog

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

    Audio: fixed a regression in the Core Audio backend causing a hang when returning from host sleep when processing input buffers
    Audio: fixed a potential crash in the HDA emulation if a stream has no valid mixer sink attached -- thanks to Rink Springer (rink@…)
    Windows hosts: fixed an incompatibility with recent versions of Windows 10 (bug #17977)
    Windows hosts: fixed a number of brigded networking driver crashes (bug #18046)
    Linux Additions: disable 3D for recent guests using Wayland (bug #18116)
    Linux Additions: fix for rebuilding kernel modules for new kernels on RPM guests
    Linux Additions: further fixes for Linux 4.19
    Linux Additions: fixed errors rebuilding initrd files with dracut on EL 6 (bug 18055#)
    Linux Additions: fixed 5.2.20 regression: guests not remembering the screen size after shutdown and restart (bug #18078)

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Release Notes

Here is an incomplete list of changes since Beta 1:

    User interface: a new file manager enabling user to control the guest file system and copy file objects between host and guest.

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

    Oracle Cloud integration fixes and improvements
    User interface: many improvements
    Audio/Video recording fixes and improvements
    Devices: new BusLogic ISA variant
    Devices: serial port fixes
    BIOS: fixes
    API: transparently resize disk images when merging if possible
    Solaris: installer fixes
    Windows Guest Addiitons: fix incorrect tablet co-ordinate handling with recent Windows 10 builds
    Guest Additions: improved shared folder auto-mounting
    OS/2 Guest Additions: initial shared folder support

Here is an incomplete list of changes in Beta 1:

    OCI Integration: implemented support for exporting a VM to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    Improvements in GUI design
    User interface: greatly improved HiDPI and scaling support, including better using host HiDPI support, HiDPI icons, improved detection and per-machine configuration
    User interface: major rework of interface style with improved ease of access for application and machine set-up

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

    User interface: video and audio recording can now be separately enabled
    Audio: implemented support for attaching / detaching VRDE audio drivers at runtime
    Guest Control: various new APIs and features were implemented (see SDK documentation for more)
    Networking: Added a workaround for older guests which do not enable bus mastering for the virtio PCI device
    many unlisted fixes and improvements

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Changelog

VirtualBox 6.0 will be a new major release. Here is an incomplete list of changes since Beta 2:

    OCI integration: exporting a VM is now possible from the command line interface (VBoxManage)
    OCI integration: all virtualized shapes are supported, e.g. VM.Standard2.*
    Devices/graphics: enable support for VMSVGA graphics device emulation by default
    VBoxManage: support for DHCP options
    Windows guests: support VMSVGA in the Windows Additions

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

    Serial: allow changing the serial port attachment while the VM is running (bug #6115)
    Linux hosts: support Linux 4.20 (thank you Larry Finger)
    Linux guests: support Linux 4.20 (thank you Larry Finger)
    Linux guests: support VMSVGA in the Linux and X11 Additions

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Changelog

Audio: added support for surround speaker setups (e.g. used by Windows 10 Build 1809)
Storage: added utility vboximg-mount on OS X to access the content of disk images on the host.
Documentation: complete rewrite.

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

    Linux Additions: fix for building vboxvideo on EL 7.6 standard kernel, contributed by Robert Conde (bug #18093)
    Shared folders: performance improvements

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Changelog

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

    Implemented support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
    User interface: greatly improved HiDPI and scaling support, including better detection and per-machine configuration
    Major rework of user interface with simpler and more powerful application and virtual machine set-up
    User interface: a new file manager enabling user to control the guest file system and copy files between host and guest.
    Graphics: major update of 3D graphics support for Windows guests, and VMSVGA 3D graphics device emulation on Linux and Solaris guests
    Added support for surround speaker setups (as used by Windows 10 Build 1809)
    Added utility vboximg-mount on Apple hosts to access the content of guest disks on the host
    Added support for using Hyper-V as the fallback execution core on Windows host, to avoid inability to run VMs at the price of reduced performance

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

    Execution core: fixed single-stepping in certain circumstances (bug #17316)
    User interface: video and audio recording can now be separately enabled
    Audio/Video recording fixes and improvements
    Audio: better support for attaching and detaching remote desktop connections
    Serial port emulation fixes
    Serial ports: allow changing the serial port attachment while a machine is running (bug #6115)
    Networking: Added a workaround for older guests which do not enable bus mastering for the virtio PCI device
    Networking: fixed wrong RCODE from DNS AAAA query with --natdnshostresolver1 (bug #18171)
    iSCSI: In cases where there is no ambiguity, the LUN of an iSCSI target is automatically determined, for targets with non-zero LUNs
    Transparently resize disk images when merging if possible
    VBoxManage: support for DHCP options
    Fixed VNC/RDP (bug 18153)
    Guest Control: various new interfaces and features (see SDK documentation)
    Linux hosts: support Linux 4.20 (thank you Larry Finger)
    Solaris: installer fixes
    Shared folders: performance improvements
    Guest Additions: improved shared folder auto-mounting
    Windows Guest Additions: fix incorrect tablet co-ordinate handling with recent Windows 10 builds
    Linux Additions: fix for building vboxvideo on EL 7.6 standard kernel, contributed by Robert Conde (bug #18093)
    Linux guests: support Linux 4.20 (thank you Larry Finger)
    Linux guests: support VMSVGA in the Linux and X11 Additions
    MacOS Guest Additions: initial support
    OS/2 Guest Additions: initial shared folder support
    BIOS fixes
    ACPI: Up to four custom ACPI tables can now be configured for a VM

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

    User interface: fixed creation of desktop shortcuts for starting virtual machines (bug #18207)
    User interface: allow the first run window to selecting host drives (bug #18230)
    User interface: fixed attaching empty host optical drives (bug #18223)
    User interface: implemented a new virtual optical disk creation window
    USB: modified Linux backends to reset USB devices (previously, most guest attempts to reset USB devices were ignored)
    PCnet: fixed a regression which caused some PCnet PCI guest drivers to not detect the emulated hardware (bug #18286)
    Linux hosts: fixed conflict between Debian and Oracle build desktop files (bug #18264)
    Linux and MacOS hosts: VirtualBoxVM command not accessible (bug #18257)
    Windows guests: multiple monitor fixes with VBoxSVGA graphics
    Windows guests: black screen with VBoxSVGA graphics when 3D is disabled (bug #18205)
    Linux guests: fixed building drivers on SLES 12.4 (bug #18213)
    Linux guests: fixed building shared folder driver with older kernels (bug #18238)
    OS/2 shared folders: fixed write regression introduced in 6.0.0 GA

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Changelog

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

    Linux Additions: fix for building vboxvideo on EL 7.6 standard kernel, contributed by Robert Conde (bug #18093)
    USB: fixed a problem causing failures attaching SuperSpeed devices which report USB version 3.1 (rather than 3.0) on Windows hosts
    Audio: added support for surround speaker setups used by Windows 10 Build 1809
    Linux hosts: fixed conflict between Debian and Oracle build desktop files (bug #18264)
    Linux guests: fixed building drivers on SLES 12.4 (bug #18213)
    Linux guests: fixed building shared folder driver with older kernels (bug #18238)

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

    Virtualization core: support Shanghai/Zhaoxin CPUs.
    User interface: handle command line arguments to VirtualBox correctly (bugs #18206 and #18197)
    User interface: improvements to machine manager window, virtual optical disk creator, storage selector window and log viewer window
    User interface: various small fixes and improvements
    Audio: implemented time scheduling for the AC'97 device emulation to keep audio and video in sync
    Graphics: basic support for VMSVGA graphics device in virtual machines using EFI
    Network: fix occasional NATNet crashes (bug #13899)
    Network: worked around problems in certain PCnet drivers on old operating systems
    Serial: fixed connecting to pseudo terminals on POSIX hosts (6.0.0 regression; bug #18319)
    Linux hosts and guests: fix for building kernel modules against Linux 5.0. Thank you Kyle Laker

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

    Virtualization core: support Shanghai/Zhaoxin CPUs.
    Network: fix occasional NATNet crashes (bug #13899)
    Linux hosts: Skip device enumeration if PulseAudio interface is not available
    Linux hosts and guests: fix for building kernel modules against Linux 5.0. Thank you Kyle Laker

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