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VirtualBox 5.0.10

Wie gewohnt steht der Download auf der Projektseite und FTP-Server (SHA256) bereit.

Changelog:

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

• VMM: improved support for certain Intel Atom CPUs
  
• VMM: system register emulation fix
  
• GUI: fixed immediate screenshot issue
  
• GUI: fixed another 3D overlay window reparenting issue when the VM is switched to fullscreen mode on X11 hosts
  
• GUI: fixed help index
  
• GUI: fixed state synchronization issue in the VM manager window when VM was paused from its runtime window
  
• Audio: fixed suspending/resuming audio streams on VM pause/unpause
  
• Audio: properly reset AC97 audio streams, otherwise there is silence until a non-48 kHz stream is played
  
• Audio: fixed a small emulation quirk of the AD1980 codec of the HDA device to make recent linux guests work
  
• USB: serveral fixes for the xHCI controller
  
• USB: fixed a crash under certain conditions on hosts with Linux kernels older than version 3.3
  
• USB: better identification of certain USB devices
  
• NAT: support TCP in DNS proxy
  
• NAT Network: fixed sporadic crashes on Windows hosts
  
• API: when creating differencing images (e.g. as part of a snapshot or cloning a VM) use the same disk image variant as the parent image if possible, which means that e.g. a diff image for a VMDK image split into 2 GB files will also be split
  
• API: event queue handling fixes preventing loss of certain events at runtime (e.g. new webcam attached), particularly important on Mac OS X hosts
  
• Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices (Windows hosts only)
  
• VBoxManage: don't crash on snapshot restorecurrent / edit if the VM has no snapshots
  
• VBoxManage: don't crash on controlvm addencpassword
  
• Mac OS X hosts: use the correct kernel on certain hosts
  
• Windows hosts: fixed VRDP external authentication
  
• Windows hosts: allow to use a shared folder path with extended-length path prefix
  
• Windows hosts: fix a crash in the netfilter host driver under certain conditions
  
• Windows host installer: documented and fixed public properties which can be used to control the installation to some extent
  
• Windows host installer: fixed not starting the actual installation when showing the version information or help dialogs
  
• X11 Additions: added basic support for X.Org Server 1.18 (3D requires additional fixes)

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VirtualBox 5.0.12

Der Download kann wie üblich über Projektseite und FTP-Server (SHA256) abgerufen werden.

Changelog:

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

• GUI: fixed wrong scrolling behaviour in the VM selector window when a VM item is dragged out of the chooser-pane area
  
• GUI: fixed the validation of IPv6 port-forwarding rules
  
• GUI: suppress the first-run wizard if a CD/DVD medium is inserted using the selector UI
  
• GUI: fixed the Ctrl+Break key sequence scan codes
  
• GUI: improved handling of text selection mouse pointer
  
• Host services: fixed a crash during VM shutdown under rare conditions
  
• Shared folders: fixed a sharing violation if a file is opened to check the attributes
  
• Webcam: passthrough fix for certain devices
  
• XHCI: fixed broken emulation if software virtualization is used
  
• XHCI: several fixes
  
• 3D: fixed state handling under certain conditions
  
• Audio: several fixes
  
• BIOS: added LBA64 support for being able to boot from huge hard disks
  
• EFI: fix for Windows 10 guests
  
• ExtPack: before installing an Extension Pack check if there are VMs running to prevent file system locking issues
  
• rdesktop-vrdp: source code tarball fixes
  
• Windows hosts: fixed hang when using VBoxAuthSimple library for VRDP external authentication
  
• Windows hosts: fixed a regression which prevented it to attach to a physical network adapter having TCP/IP disabled
  
• Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused multi-port adapters to be shown as a single adapter
  
• Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused created host-only adapters to not appear in the list
  
• Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues related to Windows 10
  
• Linux hosts: .desktop file compatibility issue
  
• Linux hosts / guests: fixes for RHEL 7.2
  
• The command for recompiling the host kernel modules was changed again, to /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup
  
• Linux hosts: some fixes for PCI passthrough (still highly experimental)
  
• Linux/Mac OS X hosts: fixed a VM hang during startup under certain circumstances
  
• Solaris hosts: added Python 2.7 bindings
  
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed a possible crash when the default input or output audio device changes
  
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed a panic under certain conditions
  
• Linux Additions: prevent the compiler from doing dead-code elemination on vital code in guest / host communication
  
• Linux Additions: when mounting a shared folder, explicitly pass the share name so that /proc/mounts contains this name instead of 'none'
  
• Linux Additions: workaround for a systemd problem in conjunction with SELinux which prevented to properly enable the 'vboxadd' service during while upgrading the Additions

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[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 5.0.14

Wie gewohnt steht der Download auf Projektseite und FTP-Server (SHA256) bereit.

Changelog:

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

• GUI: properly limit the number of VCPUs to the number of physical cores on Mac OS X
  
• Audio: fixed a bug which prevented loading a saved state of a saved guests with HDA emulation
  
• Audio: don't crash if the backend is unable to initialize
  
• Audio: fixed audio capture on Mac OS X
  
• Storage: fixed a possible crash when attaching the same ISO image multiple times to the same VM
  
• BIOS: properly report if two floppy drives are attached
  
• USB: fixed a problem with filters which would not capture the device under certain circumstances
  
• ExtPack: black-list Extension Packs older than 4.3.30 due to incompatible changes not being properly handled in the past
  
• Windows hosts: fixed a regression which caused robocopy to fail
  
• Linux hosts: properly create the /sbin/rcvboxdrv symbolic link
  
• Mac OS X hosts: several fixes for USB on El Capitan
  
• Linux Additions: fixes for Linux 4.5

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VirtualBox 5.0.16

Download ist ab sofort auf der Projektseite und FTP-Server (SHA256) verfügbar.

Changelog:

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

• VMM: fixed a problem which could lead to a wrong guest behavior on AMD CPUs
  
• GUI: don't try to synchronize the HID LEDs if the VM window is not active or if it's minimized
  
• GUI: prevent a crash during startup under rare conditions
  
• GUI: sub-menu option to disable guest-OS type overlay in the application dock icon on Mac OS X
  
• GUI: position off-screen windows to be fully visible again on relaunch
  
• GUI: hide the VT-x/AMD-V checkbox if raw-mode is not supported
  
• PC speaker passthrough: new experimental feature, available on Linux host only
  
• Audio: several fixes for Mac OS X hosts + guests
  
• Audio: properly handle default audio device changes
  
• USB: serveral fixes for the xHCI controller (e.g. for webcam passthrough)
  
• BIOS: fixed int15/AH=83/AL=00 function
  
• iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts
  
• Shared folders: fixed a failure to load the saved state under certain circumstances
  
• Guest Control: added support for (cached) Active Directory authentication in case the domain controller is not reachable (anymore)
  
• Serial ports: raised the number of serial ports per VM from 2 to 4
  
• Serial ports: fix for the TCP/IP backend
  
• SDK: make the Python webservice API binding work again (5.0 regression)
  
• Seamless mode: fixed a crash under certain circumstances
  
• Linux hosts: fixed the /sbin/rcvboxdrv script as well as the missing shebang in two scripts
  
• Linux hosts: properly uninstall Python files installed by the .run installer
  
• Windows hosts: hardening fix required for recent Windows insider builds
  
• Windows hosts: fixed Python installation path
  
• Windows hosts: support MTU larger than 2 KB with bridged networking
  
• Windows hosts / guests: properly sign binaries using a sha-256 certificate
  
• Windows Additions: fixed guest property enumeration of logged-in users
  
• Windows Additions: fixed sporadical failure of the graphics driver in Windows 10 guests
  
• Windows Additions: under rare circumstances no mouse movement events were delivered to the guest

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[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 5.0.18

Wie immer kann der Download über Projektseite oder FTP-Server (SHA256) abgerufen werden.

Changelog:

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

• GUI: position off-screen windows to be fully visible again on relaunch in consistence with default-behavior
  
• GUI: fixed the View menu / Full-screen Mode behavior on Mac OS X El Capitan
  
• GUI: fixed a test which allowed to encrypt a hard disk with an empty password
  
• GUI: fixed a crash under certain conditions during VM shutdown
  
• GUI: fixed the size of the VM list scrollbar in the VM selector when entering a group
  
• PC speaker passthrough: fixes (Linux hosts only)
  
• Drag and drop: several fixes
  
• SATA: fixed hotplug flag handling when EFI is used
  
• Storage: fixed handling of encrypted disk images with SCSI controllers
  
• Storage: fixed possible crash with Solaris 7 if the BusLogic SCSI controller is used
  
• USB: properly purge non-ASCII characters from USB strings
  
• NAT Network: fixed 100% CPU load in VBoxNetNAT on Mac OS X under certain circumstances
  
• ACPI: fixed ACPI tables to make the display color management settings available again for older Windows versions
  
• Guest Control: fixed VBoxManage copyfrom command
  
• Snapshots: fixed several problems when removing older snapshots
  
• VBoxManage: fixed --verbose output of the guestcontrol command
  
• Windows hosts: hardening fixes required for recent Windows 10 insider builds
  
• Windows hosts: fixed support of jumbo frames in with bridged networking
  
• Windows hosts: don't prevent receiving multicast traffic if host-only adapters are installed
  
• Linux hosts: added support for the new naming scheme of NVME disks when creating raw disks
  
• Solaris hosts / guests: properly sign the kernel modules
  
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.5 fixes
  
• Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.6 fixes
  
• Linux Additions: added a kernel graphics driver to support graphics when X.Org does not have root rights
  
• Linux/Solaris Additions: fixed several issues causing Linux/Solatis guests using software rendering when 3D acceleration is available
  
• Windows Additions: fixed a hang with PowerPoint 2010 and the WDDM drivers if Aero is disabled

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 5.0.20

Wie üblich ist der Download auf der Projektseite und dem FTP-Server (SHA256) verfügbar.

Changelog:

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

• Storage: fixed a regression causing write requests from the BIOS to cause a Guru Meditation with the LsiLogic SCSI controller
  
• Storage: several emulation fixes in the BusLogic SCSI controller emulation
  
• NAT Network: support TCP in DNS proxy
  
• NAT: rework handling of port-forwarding rules
  
• NAT: rewrite host resolver to handle more query types and make it asynchronous so that a stalled lookup doesn't block all NAT traffic
  
• Snapshots: don't crash when restoring a snapshot which has more network adapters than the current state (ie when the snapshot uses ICH9 and the current state uses PIIX3)
  
• Guest Control: various bugfixes for the copyfrom and copyto commands / API
  
• VBoxManage: list processor features on list hostinfo
  
• Linux hosts: fix for Linux 4.5 if CONFIG_NET_CLS_ACT is enabled
  
• Windows hosts: another fix for recent Windows 10 insider builds
  
• Windows hosts: make it work on Windows XP again
  
• Windows Additions: fixed performance issues with PowerPoint 2010 and the WDDM graphics drivers if Aero is disabled

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 5.1.0 Beta 1

Changelog (unvollständig):

VirtualBox 5.1 will be a new minor release. Here is an incomplete list of changes:

• VMM: new APIC and I/O APIC implementations that result in significantly improved performance in certain situations
  
• VMM: added support for Hyper-V paravirtualized debugging of Windows guests
  
• VMM: emulate even more MMIO and shadow pagetable exits without going back to user mode
  
• GUI: overall migration to Qt5
  
• GUI: passive API event listener improving the VM GUI performance and response time
  
• better support for Python 3

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

• VMM: many fixes
  
• GUI: the Detach UI action is now a part of the VM Machine menu
  
• GUI: reworked session information window
  
• GUI: the new VM wizard now allows to choose the VM location for the VM which is being created
  
• GUI: various bugfixes and internal cleanup
  
• Storage: use fallocate or similar if present to speed up creating fixed-sized disk images
  
• Storage: implemented NVMHCI-compatible storage controller
  
• EFI: many improvements, for example allow to boot from USB
  
• OVF: improved handling of signed manifests
  
• Windows hosts: rework COM proxy
  
• Linux installers: no longer rely on DKMS for module rebuilding

Wie immer gilt: Diese Version sollte nicht produktiv eingesetzt werden, es ist lediglich eine frühe Vorschau zu Testzwecken. Interessierte können sich die Binaries hier runterladen. Feedback ist im Forum generell willkommen, aber bitte keine Bugs im öffentlichen Bugtracker melden!

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VirtualBox 5.1.0 Beta 2

Changelog (unvollständige Liste der Änderungen seit der Beta 1):

VirtualBox 5.1 will be a new minor release.

• GUI: don't crash when showing the Beta popup message window
  
• GUI: multi-screen full-screen layout fixed for Windows host
  
• GUI: don't allow to start subsequent separate VM instances
  
• SDK: reduced memory usage in the webservice Java bindings
  
• Settings: fixed regression with disabling audio
  
• Settings: fixed regression with saving snapshots
  
• Linux installer: Several path fixes for deb/rpm packages for older Linux distributions where we ship our own Qt5 libraries
  
• Solaris Additions: added support for X.org 1.18

Diese Version ist lediglich eine frühe Vorschau zu Testzwecken und sollte nicht produktiv eingesetzt werden. Interessierte können sich die Binaries hier runterladen. Feedback ist im Forum generell willkommen, aber bitte keine Bugs im öffentlichen Bugtracker melden!

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 5.0.22

Wie üblich ist der Download auf der Projektseite und direkt vom FTP-Server (SHA256) abrufbar.

Changelog:

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

• VMM: fixes for certain Intel Atom hosts
  
• VMM: properly restore the complete FPU state for 32-bit guests on 64-bit hosts on Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPUs
  
• VMM: new I/O-APIC implementation fixing several bugs and improving the performance under certain conditions
  
• VMM: fixed a potential Linux guest panic on AMD hosts
  
• VMM: fixed a potential hang with 32-bit EFI guests on Intel CPUs (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution)
  
• GUI: don't allow to start subsequent separate VM instances
  
• GUI: raised upper limit for video capture screen resolution
  
• GUI: warn if the VM has less than 128MB VRAM configured and 3D enabled
  
• Main: when monitoring DNS configuration changes on Windows hosts avoid false positives from competing DHCP renewals. This should fix NAT link flaps when host has multiple DHCP configured interfaces, in particular when the host uses OpnVPN.
  
• Main: properly display an error message if the VRDE server cannot be enabled at runtime, for example because another service is using the same port
  
• NAT: Initialize guest address guess for wildcard port-forwarding rules with default guest address
  
• VGA: fix for a problem which made certain legacy guests crash under certain conditions
  
• ACPI: properly notify the guest if the ACPI battery state changed
  
• OVF: fixed import problems for some appliances using an AHCI controller created by 3rd party applications
  
• SDK: reduced memory usage in the webservice Java bindings
  
• Windows hosts: fixed performance regresson with SMP guests
  
• Windows hosts: fixes for the shared clipboard
  
• Windows hosts: Windows hardening fix
  
• Windows Additions: fixes to retain the guest display layout when resizing or disabling the guest monitors
  
• Linux hosts: EL 6.8 fix
  
• Linux hosts: Linux 4.7 fix
  
• Linux Additions: Linux 4.7 fixes
  
• Linux Additions: fix for certain 32-bit guests
  
• Linux Additions: fixed mouse pointer offset
  
• Linux Additions: made old X.Org releases work again with kernels 3.11 and later
  
• Linux Additions: fixed X.Org crash after hard guest reset
  
• Linux Additions: don't stop the X11 setup if loading the shared folders module fails
  
• Linux Additions: don't complain if the Drag and Drop service is not available on the host
  
• Solaris Additions: added support for X.org 1.18

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VirtualBox 5.1.0 Beta 3

Changelog (unvollständige Liste der Änderungen seit der Beta 2):

VirtualBox 5.1 will be a new minor release.

• GUI: more multi-screen full-screen issues fixed for Windows host
  
• GUI: fixing Solaris crash in VM settings dialog, see here
  
• VMM: Paravirt fixes
  
• VMM: fixes on Mac OS X
  
• VMM: I/O-APIC fixes and improvements
  
• VMM: many other fixes
  
• VMM: fixes for 64-bit Solaris on 32-bit hosts
  
• ACPI: fixes for passing through the battery information to the guest
  
• Main: raised the initial values for RAM, VRAM and hard disk size for certain guests
  
• Main: WinXP guests defaults to E1000 (PRO/1000 T Server), better performance
  
• E1000: implemented interrupt throttling improving the performance under certain conditions
  
• Linux hosts: fixed several Qt5 problems when using the .run packages on recent Linux distributions
  
• Linux installer: remove old VBox kernel modules before installing the new version
  
• X11 Additions: the drag and drop service of VBoxClient was blocked for 60 seconds during shutdown

Wie immer zu beachten: Diese Version dient lediglich als frühe Vorschau zu Testzwecken und sollte nicht produktiv eingesetzt werden. Interessierte können sich die Binaries hier runterladen. Feedback ist im Forum generell willkommen, aber bitte keine Bugs im öffentlichen Bugtracker melden!

[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 5.0.24

Vor dem neuen Minor-Release noch mal ein kleines Update. Der Download steht ab sofort auf der Projektseite und FTP-Server (SHA256) zur Verfügung.

Changelog:

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

• VMM: reverted to the old I/O-APIC code for now to fix certain regressions with 5.0.22. This means that the networking performance with certain guests will drop to the 5.0.20 level. One workaround is to disable GRO for Linux guests.
  
• Main: when taking a screenshot, don't save garbage for blanked screens
  
• NAT: correctly parse resolv.conf file with multiple separators
  
• Storage: fixed a possible corruption of stream optimized VMDK images from VMware when opened in read/write mode for the first time
  
• Audio: imlemented dynamic re-attaching of input/output devices on Mac OS X hosts
  
• ACPI: notify the guest when the battery / AC state changes instead of relying on guest polling
  
• Linux hosts: fixed VERR_VMM_SET_JMP_ABORTED_RESUME Guru Meditations on hosts with Linux 4.6 or later
  
• Solaris hosts: make the GUI work on Solaris 10 again

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[XiLeeN2004]

VirtualBox 5.1.0 Release Candidate 1

Changelog (unvollständige Liste der Änderungen seit der Beta 3):

VirtualBox 5.1 will be a new minor release.

• VMM: fixed flip-flop handling of edge-triggered interrupts
  
• VMM: enable X2-APIC for Linux guests by default
  
• VMM: many fixes
  
• GUI: fixed hang on X11 caused by the infinite loop where multi-screen full-screen windows were grabbing keyboard one after another
  
• GUI: fixed X11 Qt5 migration consequences related to multi-screen full-screen support was broken heavily.
  
• GUI: fixed VBox GUI on solaris 10
  
• GUI: improved keyboard capturing on X11 hosts
  
• GUI: Fixed broken keyboard support on Windows host with separate UI
  
• GUI: Added medium-type descriptions for the Medium Type Change dialog
  
• API: when taking a screenshot, don't save garbage for blanked screen
  
• API: on OS X host don't lose extradata
  
• NAT: correctly parse resolv.conf with multiple separators
  
• VGA: fixed an occasional hang when running Windows guests with 3D enabled
  
• Audio: enabled new audio code
  
• NetFlt/Win: NDIS5 bridging driver installation issue resolved
  
• VBoxSVC: fixed several memory leaks when handling .dmg images
  
• Installers: ship VBoxBugReport
  
• Linux hosts: fixed VERR_VMM_SET_JMP_ABORTED_RESUME Guru Meditations on hosts with Linux 4.6 or later
  
• Winows hosts: fixed installing of bridged networking drivers on Windows Servere 2003 and Windows XP
  
• Windows hosts: properly fall back to NDIS5 on pre-Vista hosts on silent installations
  
• Solaris hosts: fixed a crash on hosts with certain CPU configurations

Bitte beachten: Diese Version dient lediglich als Vorschau zu Testzwecken und sollte nicht produktiv eingesetzt werden. Interessierte können sich die Binaries hier runterladen. Feedback ist im Forum generell willkommen, aber bitte keine Bugs im öffentlichen Bugtracker melden!

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