6.1.36
- VMM: Fixed possible Linux guest kernel crash when configuring Speculative Store Bypass for a single vCPU VM
- GUI: In the storage page of the virtual machine settings dialog, fixed a bug which disrupted mouse interaction with the native file selector on KDE
- NAT: Prevent issue when host resolver incorrectly returned NXDOMAIN for unsupported queries (bug #20977)
- Audio: General improvements in saved state area
- Recording: Various fixes for settings handling
- VGA: Performance improvements for screen updates when VBE banking is used
- USB: Fixed rare crashes when detaching a USB device
- ATA: Fixed NT4 guests taking a minute to eject CDs
- vboximg-mount: Fixed broken write support (bug #20896)
- SDK: Fixed Python bindings incorrectly trying to convert arbitrary byte data into unicode objects with Python 3, causing exceptions (bug #19740)
- API: Fixed an issue when virtual USB mass storage devices or virtual USB DVD drives are added while the VM is not running are by default not marked as hot-pluggable
- API: Initial support for Python 3.10
- API: Solaris OS types cleanup
- Windows host: Fixed regression in 6.1.32 leading to guest hangs when Hyper-V is used (bug #20787)
- Windows host: Fixed possible issues with saving and restoring VM state when using Hyper-V/NEM mode
- Linux and Solaris hosts: Allow to mount shared folder if it is represented as a symlink on a host side (bug #17491)
- Linux Host and Guest drivers: Introduced initial support for kernels 5.18, 5.19 and RHEL 9.1 (bugs #20914, #20941)
- Linux Host and Guest drivers: Better support for kernels built with clang compiler (bugs #20425 and #20998)
- Solaris Guest Additions: General improvements in installer area
- Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed guest screen resize in VMSVGA graphics configuration
- Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed multi-screen handling in VBoxVGA and VBoxSVGA graphics configuration
- Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Added support for setting primary screen via VBoxManage
- Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed X11 resources leak when resizing guest screens
- Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed file descriptor leak when starting a process using guest control (bug #20902)
- Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed guest control executing processes as root
- Linux Guest Additions: Improved guests booting time by preventing kernel modules from being rebuilt when it is not necessary (bug #20502)
- Windows Guest Additions: Fixed VBoxTray crash on startup in NT4 guests on rare circumstances
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6.1.34
- VMM: Fix instruction emulation for "cmpxchg16b"
- GUI: Improved GUI behavior on macOS Big Sur and later when kernel extensions are not loaded
- EHCI: Addressed an issue with handling short packets (bug #20726)
- Storage: Fixed a potential hang during disk I/O when the host I/O cache is disabled (bug #20875)
- NVMe: Fixed loading saved state when nothing is attached to it (bug #20791)
- DevPcBios: Addressed an issue which resulted in rejecting the detected LCHS geometry when the head count was above 16
- virtio-scsi: Improvements
- E1000: Improve descriptor handling
- VBoxManage: Fixed handling of command line arguments with incomplete quotes (bug #20740)
- VBoxManage: Improved 'natnetwork list' output
- VBoxManage: NATNetwork: Provide an option (--ipv6-prefix) to set IPv6 prefix
- VBoxManage: NATNetwork: Provide an option (--ipv6-default) to advertise default IPv6 route (bug #20714)
- VBoxManage: Fix documentation of "usbdevsource add" (bug #20849)
- Networking: General improvements in IPv4 and IPv6 area (bug #20714)
- OVF Import: Allow users to specify a different storage controller and/or controller port for hard disks when importing a VM
- Unattended install: Improvements
- Shared Clipboard: Improved HTML clipboard handling for Windows host
- MacOS host: Fix handling of non-ASCII characters in the guest control functionality (bug #20792)
- Linux host and guest: Introduced initial support for kernel 5.17
- Solaris package: Fixes for API access from Python
- Solaris IPS package: Suppress dependency on libpython2.7.so.*
- Linux host and guest: Fixes for Linux kernel 5.14
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed guest screen resize for older guests which are running libXrandr older than version 1.4
- Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.6 kernels (bug #20877)
- Windows guest: Make driver install smarter
- Solaris guest: Addressed an issue which prevented VBox GAs 6.1.30 or 6.1.32 from being removed in Solaris 10 guests (bug #20780)
- EFI: Fixed booting from FreeBSD ISO images (bug #19910)
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6.1.32
- VMM: Changed the guest RAM management when using Hyper-V to be more compatible with HVCI (bug #20627 and #20694)
- VMM: Workaround for OS/2 guest unstability on newer AMD CPUs due to a missing TLB flush in OS/2 (bug #20625)
- GUI: Fixed keyboard focus loss in rare circumstances when using the mini toolbar in fullscreen mode
- Audio: Fixed accidental creation of empty debug log file when the OSS audio backend was configured
- E1000: Fix link status reporting for certain Linux kernels (some Oracle Linux ones, probably more)
- Unattended installation: Fixed regression introduced in 6.1.28, causing partitioning failure for Windows XP to 10 (bug #20769)
- Solaris host: Fixed regression in installer, failed on Solaris 10
- Solaris host: Fix packaging regression, make vboxshell.py executable
- Linux host: Fix access to some USB devices, device class was not correctly handled (bug #20721)
- Guest: Fixed wrong mouse position if guest is in text mode
- Guest Control: Fixed folders copying from host to guest and from guest to host
- Guest Control: Fixes for UNICODE handling
- Shared Clipboard: Improved HTML content exchange between X11 and Windows guests and hosts
- OS/2 Additions: Fixed some issues with extended attributes in the shared folders (bug #19453)
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6.1.30
- VMM: Fixed 6.1.28 regression preventing VMs starting when using Hyper-V mode on Windows 10
- GUI: Fixed inability to complete First Run wizard after browsing for an external image
- GUI: Fixed crash on macOS Big Sur while browsing for an external image from First Run wizard
- GUI: Fixed bug on Windows with inability to save taken screenshot under a folder with native name (bug #15561)
- GUI: Fixed bug on X11 with drag and drop initiated on single mouse click in VM storage settings
- GUI: Fixed settings check on machines not supporting hardware virtualization
- GUI: Non critical media related errors should not cause modal pop-up error messages
- Host-only networking: Fixed crash parsing /etc/vbox/networks.conf
- DVD: Fixed drive lock handling across VM reset
- VBoxHeadless: Fixed crash when running on macOS Monterey (bug #20636)
- VBoxManage: Fixed incorrect help text for "hostonlyif"
- vboximg-mount: Error message if no image is specified
- macOS host: fix multiple bugs specific to macOS Monterey in installer and startup of kernel extensions
- macOS host: show message indicating the unsupported CPU on M1 based Macs and abort installation
- Linux host: For all distribution specific packages (deb/rpm format) fix the packaging so that the feature for unattended installation of guest OSes works
- Linux host and guest: Introduced initial support for kernel 5.16
- Shared Clipboard: Improved communication between guest and host when guest has no clipboard data to report
- Linux Guest Additions: Allow running only one VBoxDRMClient instance (bug #19373)
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6.1.28
- VMM: Fixed guru meditation while booting nested-guests accessing debug registers under certain conditions
- UI: Bug fixes for touchpad-based scrolling
- VMSVGA: Fixed VM black screen issue on first resize after restoring from saved state (bug #20067)
- VMSVGA: Fixed display corruption on Linux Mint (bug #20513)
- Storage: Fixed a possible write error under certain circumstances when using VHD images (bug #20512)
- Network: Multiple updates in virtio-net device support
- Network: Disconnecting cable in saved VM state now is handled properly by virtio-net
- Network: More administrative control over network ranges, see user manual
- NAT: Fixed not rejecting TFTP requests with absolute pathnames (bug #20589)
- Audio: Fixed VM session aborting after PC hibernation (bug #20516)
- Audio: Fixed setting the line-in volume of the HDA emulation on modern Linux guests (bug oem2#53)
- Audio: Fixed resuming playback of the AC'97 emulation while a snapshot has been taken (bug oem2#52)
- API: Added bindings support for Python 3.9 (bug #20252)
- API: Fixed rare hang of VM when changing settings at runtime
- Linux host: Improved kernel modules installation detection which prevents unnecessary modules rebuild
- Windows Host: Sped up large page allocations on Windows 8 and later
- Windows Host: Fixed VBoxHeadless process sticking around after VM is closed (bug #20574)
- Host Services: Shared Clipboard: Prevent guest clipboard reset when clipboard sharing is disabled (bug #20487)
- Host Services: Shared Clipboard over VRDP: Fixed to continue working when guest service reconnects to host (bug #20366)
- Host Services: Shared Clipboard over VRDP: Fixed preventing remote RDP client to hang when guest has no clipboard data to report
- Linux Host and Guest: Introduced initial support for kernels 5.14 and 5.15
- Linux Host and Guest: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.5 kernel
- Windows Guest: Introduced Windows 11 guest support, including unattended installation
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6.1.26
- This is a maintenance release.
- VMSVGA: fixed VM screen artifacts after restoring from saved state (bug #20067)
- Storage: Fixed audio endianness for certain CUE sheet CD/DVD images.
- VBoxHeadless: Running VM will save its state on host shutdown
- VBoxManage: Fix OS detection for Ubuntu 20.10 ISO with unattended install
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6.1.24
- Storage: Fixed starting a VM if a device is attached to a VirtIO SCSI port higher than 30 (bug #20213)
- Storage: Improvement to DVD medium change signaling
- Serial: Fixed a the guest missing interrupts under certain circumstances (6.0 regression, bug #18668)
- Audio: Multiple fixes and enhancements
- Network: Fixed connectivity issue with virtio-net after resuming VM with disconnected link
- Network: Fixed UDP GSO fragmentation issue with missing 8 bytes of payload at the end of the first fragment
- API: Fixed VM configuration for recent Windows Server versions
- Extension Pack: Fixed issues with USB webcam pass-through on Linux
- Host and guest driver: Fix small memory leak (bug #20280)
- Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.13 (bug #20456)
- Linux host and guest: Introduce support for SUSE SLES/SLED 15 SP3 kernels (bug #20396)
- Linux host: Installer will not attempt to build kernel modules if system already has them installed and modules versions match current version
- Windows host: Fix DLL signature validation to work better with an invalid certificate
- Guest Additions: Fixed crash on using shared clipboard (bug #19165)
- Linux Guest Additions: Introduce support for Ubuntu specific kernels (bug #20325)
- Solaris guest: Increased default memory and disk sizes
- EFI: Support network booting with the E1000 network controller emulation
- EFI: Stability improvements (bug #20090)
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6.1.22
- VMM: Improved performance of 64-bit Windows and Solaris guests when Hyper-V is used on recent Windows 10 hosts
- VMM: Fixed frequent crashes of 64-bit Windows Vista and Server 2003 guests when Hyper-V is used
- GUI: Fixed regression where user was not able to save unset default shortcuts (bug #20305)
- Storage: Fixed regression in LsiLogic SAS controller emulation caused VM crash (bug #20323)
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when it was not possible to run executables from mounted share (bug #20320)
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6.1.20
- VMM: Fixed extremely poor VM performance depending on the timing of various actions (regression in 6.1.0)
- VMM: Fixed guest OS hanging under certain circumstances when Hyper-V is present (bug #20141)
- VMM: Fixed Guru Meditation error when using a nested hypervisor under certain circumstances (bug #20175)
- VMM: Fixed a SMAP related host panic affecting Solaris 11.4 systems with Intel Haswell CPUs or later (bug #16068)
- OCI: Add cloud-init support for export to OCI and for OCI instance creation
- GUI: Fixed "Delete all files" leaving behind Logs/VBoxUI.log (bug #20235)
- Audio: Multiple fixes and enhancements
- Audio: Fixed detection of duplex audio devices on macOS (5.0 regression; bug #20171)
- Network: Fixed link status reporting for "not attached" adapters
- Network: Fixed connectivity issues with e1000 in OS/2 guests (6.1.18 regression; bug #20148)
- Network: Fixed VxWorks e1000 driver compatibility issue (bug #20182)
- Network: Fixed GUI checks for port forwarding rules rejecting IPv6 with "Nat Network" (bug #14847)
- DHCP: Don't crash in the presence of fixed address assignments (bug #20128)
- Serial: Fixed possible VM hang when using the a serial port in disconnected mode (bug #19854)
- Webcam: Fixed interoperability with v4l2loopback and fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #20176)
- NVMe: Fixed sporadic Windows VM hang or reboot on high CPU load
- VBoxManage: Allow changing network adapter attachment of a saved VM with "modifyvm"
- vboximg-mount: Fix for argument processing to honor the '--root' option (6.0 regression; bug #20073)
- Linux host and guest: Support kernel versions 5.11 (bug #20198) and 5.12
- Linux host: Maximum MTU size increased to 16110 for host-only adapters on Linux kernels 4.10+ (bug #19122)
- Linux Guest Additions: Fix vboxvideo module compilation for kernel version 5.10.x
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed kernel module build for RHEL 8.4 beta and CentOS Stream (bug #20289)
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