6.0.10
- User interface: fix issue inputing controller names (bug #11579)
- User interface: fix resize problems with recent Linux hosts (bug #18677)
- Serial: fixed guru meditation when raw mode is enabled (bug #18632)
- Serial: fixed possible VM crash under certain circumstances
- USB: Fixed "unrecoverable error" problems in OHCI emulation (bug #18593, 6.0.6 regression)
- USB: improve captured device identification
- VBoxManage: fix reversed reporting of audio input and output (thank you Socratis Kalogrianitis)
- VBoxManage: fix controlling recording for running machine (bug #18723)
- Guest control service: various fixes
- Windows hosts: fix problems copying files from shared folders (bug #18569)
- Linux hosts: kernel module build fixes for various kernels (bug #18316)
- Linux hosts: support UEFI secure boot driver signing on Ubuntu and Debian hosts (bug #11577)
- Linux hosts: fix focus grabbing problems with recent Qt versions (builds from source only; thank you Fabian Vogt (SUSE) and Larry Finger; bug #18745)
- Windows guests: many shared folders fixes
- Windows guests: fix other services failing if seamless mode was not available
- Linux guests: kernel module build fixes for various kernels (bugs #18677 and #18697; fixes by Larry Finger and Gianfranco Costamagna)
- Linux guests: do not try to load old versions of libcrypt on recent guests in Guest Additions tools (bug #18682)
- Linux guests: udev rules for guest kernel modules did not always take effect in time
- Linux guests/VMSVGA: do not forget the guest screen size after a guest reboot
- OS/2 guests: various shared folder fixes
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6.0.8
- Core: fix saved state resume failures (bugs #18265 and #18331)
- User interface: show full file location in New Medium window.
- User interface: fix mouse click pass-through problems in multi-screen virtual machines (6.0.6 regression, bug #18567)
- Graphics: fixed a crash when powering off a VM without graphics controller (bug #18570)
- API: partial fix for dealing with VM config conflicting with other VMs related to medium UUIDs, now correctly flags VM as inaccessible (bug #17908)
- Windows hosts: Support paths longer than 4096 characters on in shared folders
- Linux hosts: fix kernel module build breakage in non-default build set-ups (bug #18620, thank you Ambroz Bizjak)
- Linux hosts: fix kernel module build breakage in debug build set-ups (bug #18621, thank you Ambroz Bizjak)
- Windows guests: notice file size increases in shared folders which were missed in certain cases
- Linux guests: make shared folders work with Linux 3.16.35
- Linux guests: fix incorrectly read-only shared folders (bug #18345)
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6.0.6
- Virtualization core: nested AMD virtualization fixes
- User interface: fixed copying directories in file manager
- User interface: fixed operation progress in file manager when copying content
- User interface: fixed operation progress when deleting snapshots
- User interface: fixed unattended installation of recent Ubuntu guests
- User interface: various additional improvements
- Storage: fixed loading saved states for LsiLogic devices (6.0.0 regression; bug #18263)
- Storage: fixed fixed reading certain QCOW2 images and support version 3 of the format readonly
- Storage: Improved IDE PCI emulation to allow NetWare IDE drivers to use bus-mastering
- Graphics: Improved VMSVGA support to work with old X servers which previously showed only a badly scrambled screen
- Graphics: fixed invisible mouse cursor with VMSVGA emulation and without mouse integration (bug #18239)
- Graphics: make EFI work with VMSVGA emulation (bug #18282)
- Graphics: remember last guest screen size VMSVGA emulation
- Graphics: fix RDP to guests using VMSVGA emulation
- Graphics: various additional VMSVGA emulation fixes
- Audio: implemented audio device enumeration for the DirectSound backend
- Network: fixed unwanted padding bytes in Windows host adaptor network packets (bug #18202 and bug #18355)
- Serial: fixed possible crash on Windows when using a host device (6.0.0 regression; bug #18319)
- Serial: fixed loopback handling in the emulation causing garbage to be sent during boot with Linux guests (6.0.0 regression; bug #18319)
- Shared folders: fixed duplicate folders after restoring a saved state (bug #18373 and other)
- Drag and drop: fixed copying files from guest host (bug #18305)
- Recording: fixed modifying settings via VBoxManage (bug #18494)
- VBoxManage: crash fix (bug #18341)
- Fixed hangs during failed virtual machine start-up
- Windows host: fix unwanted wake-ups from standby (bug #18549)
- Windows host: disallow Pause as a host key (bug #18482)
- Linux host and guest: support Linux 5.0 and 5.1, thank you Valdis Kletnieks (see also bug #18515)
- Linux host: support kernel 4.4.169 (bug #18315)
- Linux host: fix logging when building Linux kernel modules (bug #18226)
- Linux host: clarified building Linux host drivers with secure boot (bug #18312)
- FreeBSD host: compilation fixes
- Installers: reduced size of packages
- Web services: work with Java 11
- LibreSSL compilation fix, thank you Stefan Strogin
- Windows guests: fixed running applications which use complex display topologies with WDDM driver, fixed Skype for Business hangs (bug #17092)
- Windows guests: fixed an occasional guest crash with WDDM driver and VBoxSVGA adapter (bug #18369)
- Windows guests: shared folder file creation detection issue (bug #9276)
- Linux guests: shared folder performance and reliability improvements and missing features (bugs #17360, #819)
- OS/2 guests: shared folder fixes (bug #18376 and bug #18379)
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6.0.4
- 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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6.0.2
- 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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6.0.0
- 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
- 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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5.2.22
- 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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5.2.20
- 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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