7.1.4
- GUI: Added latest NLS update for Turkish, Indonesian and Italian languages
- VMSVGA: Improved flickering, black screen and other screen update issues with recent Linux kernels (bug #21955)
- NAT: Fixed issue with restoring 7.0.X saved state
- VBoxManage: Fixed breakage of "list vms" and "showvminfo" for inaccessible VMs
- Windows host: Fixed system DLL size checking which failed with Windows 11 24H2 and recent Insider Preview builds (bug #22162)
- Linux Guest Additions: Introduce initial support for kernel 6.12 (NOTE: In kernel 6.12, KVM initializes virtualization on module loading by default. This prevents VirtualBox VMs from starting. In order to avoid this, either add "kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0" parameter into kernel command line or unload corresponding kvm_XXX module)
- Linux/Arm Guest Additions: Added possibility to automatically upgrade Guest Additions via Devices menu
- EFI: Added missing LsiLogic MPT SCSI driver again to fix booting from devices attached to this device if the EFI firmware is used (7.1.0 regression)
- EFI: Restored broken network boot support (7.1.0 regression)
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7.1.2
- GUI: Added multiple window layout and translation related fixes
- GUI: Fixed an issue that meant VMs created using Unattended Install were not removed cleanly
- GUI: Added an option to change the remote display security method
- GUI: Removed the BETA label from the macOS/Arm UI
- NAT: Fixed slow performance on Windows host (bugs #22164 and #22180)
- NAT: Fixed DHCP problems with certain guests when domain is empty
- 3D: Fixed enabling 3D acceleration in the VM settings
- 3D: Fixed black screen with Windows VMs
- 3D: Fixed rendering issues caused by incorrect view handling
- 3D: Added possibility to enable 3D acceleration function for Arm platform VMs
- GCM: Fixed problem with loading saved state created by 7.0.x
- API: Fixed an issue with incorrect handling of NVRAM state with legacy BIOS and its removal on VM deletion
- API: Fixed UEFI Secure Boot state querying when the VM was never started
- Guest Additions: Fixed error message on automatic upgrading
- SDK: Fixed building code using the XPCOM bindings (bug #22174)
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7.1.0
- GUI: Modernized look and feel, offering a selection between Basic and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionality
- OCI Integration: Performance dashboard now shows resource usage for cloud VMs
- OCI Integration: Clone compute instances
- OCI Integration: Reset compute instances
- Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack: Update to the PUEL license, removing the evaluation option. For evaluation use of the Extension Pack, please download it from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
- VRDE: If user does not set up TLS with custom certificates, enable it with self-signed certificate, including issuing a new one before the old one expires
- NAT: New engine with IPv6 support
- macOS/Arm host: Arm virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs
- Linux host and guest: Added Wayland support for Clipboard sharing (bug #20808)
- Shared Clipboard: Added initial support for transferring files on Linux and Windows hosts / guests. This requires the 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed. See User Guide for known limitations
- Screen Recording: Significant performance improvements for the encoding pipeline, resulting in less CPU usage while recording is active. This requires 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed on Windows guests
- VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V is being used (bug #17961)
- virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201)
- EFI: Ability to add new Microsoft DB/KEX certificates to newly created VMs
- Oracle Extension Pack: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support module for full VM encryption
- GUI: Improved overall accessibility
- GUI: Update the version of Qt used
- Unattended Installation: Added support for subiquity- / cloud-init-based installers; this enables installing more modern Linux-based guest OSes in Unattended mode
- Unattended Installation: Added support for specifying separate passwords for the user and admin / root accounts
- VBoxManage: Added ability to show and (re-)attach to a (video) recording progress of a VM
- VBoxManage: Added the ability to query the guest's mount points via a new "mount" Guest Control sub command. Requires at least 7.1 Guest Additions
- Python: Our API bindings for Python 2.x is now marked as being deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please upgrade your code to use Python 3
- VBoxShell: Lots of smaller and bigger bugfixes + Python 3.x compatibility
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7.0.20
- TPM: Fixed errors appearing the event viewer with Windows guests
- macOS Hosts: Fixed passing USB devices to the VM (bug #21218)
- Audio: Fixed recording with HDA emulation after newer Windows 10 / 11 guests got rebooted
- USB: Fixed a deadlock in OHCI triggered when saving the current state of a VM or taking a snapshot (bug #22059)
- Linux Guest and Host: Introduced initial support for OpenSuse 15.6 kernel
- Linux Guest and Host: Introduced initial support for RHEL 9.5 kernel (bug #22099)
- Guest Additions: Shared Clipboard: Fixed issue when extra new lines were pasted when copying text between Win and X11 (bug #21716)
- UEFI Secure Boot: Add new Microsoft certificates to list for new VMs
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7.0.18
- Networking: Fixed an issue which caused host system crash when VM was using bridged or host-only network adapter (bug #22045)
- Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes to prevent UBSAN warnings (bug #21877)
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when time stamps were displayed incorrectly within mounted shared folder (bug #22047)
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7.0.16
- VMM: Fixed a guru meditation executing nested-guests using the KVM hypervisor in the guest on Intel hosts (bug #21805)
- VMM: Fixed Linux VM crash on some recent AMD models
- USB: Fixed issue when EHCI controller was mishandling short packets (bug #20726)
- Audio: Introduced general improvements
- VBoxManage and vboximg-mount: Updated usage information and documentation (bugs #21895, #21992 and #21993)
- Guest Control: Fixed starting Windows guest processes in the correct Windows session (7.0 regression)
- Linux Host: Fixed issue when VBox.sh was deleting wrong VBoxSVC IPC socket when VM was started using sudo (bug #20928)
- Linux Host: Fixed kernel modules build failure when using GCC 13.2
- macOS Host: Fixed issue when App Nap was affecting VM performance (bug #18678)
- Linux Host and Guest: Added fixes related to UBSAN warnings discovered on recent Linux distributions (bug #21877)
- Linux Host and Guest: Added possibility to prevent kernel module from automatic loading during system boot by adding mod_name.disabled=1 into kernel command line
- Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for kernel 6.9 (bug #22033)
- Linux Host and Guest: Fixed mk_pte warning introduced in kernel 6.6 (bug #21898)
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.8
- Windows Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in graphics area
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7.0.14
- Audio: Added more fixes for switching host audio devices on Windows hosts using the WAS backend
- 3D: Added general improvements
- OCI: Fixed wrong guest RAM unit usage in VirtualSystemDescription, memory is provided in bytes, "Byte" is the base unit
- Main: OVF Import/Export: Added support for importing and exporting VMs containing NVMe storage controllers (bug #19320)
- Main: OVF Import/Export: Added support for exporting a VM which contains a medium inserted into a virtual CD/DVD drive which is attached to a Virtio-SCSI controller
- Devices: Fixed a problem where Windows guests "forget" in-progress touch events when the user holds down a finger without moving it for a period of time.
- macOS Host USB: Added support for newer storage devices
- macOS Host: Fixed memory Leak in the VBoxIntNetSwitch process when VM was configured to use 'Internal Networking' (bug #21752)
- Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 9.4 kernel
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed kernel panic on RHEL 8.9 kernel caused by vboxvideo (bugs #10381 and #21911)
- Solaris Guest Additions: Added support for the Additions to be installed into an alternate root path ('pkgadd -R')
- Solaris Guest Additions: Removed requirement to reboot VM after uninstalling GAs
- RDP: Fix possible crash when connecting with the Apple Silicon variant of the Microsoft Remote Desktop application (bug #21820).
- BIOS: Fixed handle number used for DMI OEM table (bug #19781)
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7.0.12
- VMM: Fixed using a debugger inside the guest under certain circumstances (bugs #21413 and #21546)
- VMM: Fixed detection of VT-x being used by other hypervisors (bug #21867)
- VMM: Introduced additional improvements in Split Lock Detection feature of recent Intel CPUs on Linux hosts (bug #20180)
- GUI: Fixed issue when the nested hardware virtualization setting was not displayed in the VM details panel (bug #21707)
- GUI: Introduced NLS update for Croatian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch and Turkish languages as well as added general look-and-feel improvements
- Devices: Fixed black screen in Windows guests with multiple guest screens when 3D is disabled (7.0.10 regression)
- Devices: Fixed PCI device identifiers for the VirtIO network interface (bug #21516)
- Devices: Fixed VLAN support for the VirtIO network interface (bug #21778)
- Devices: Fixed loading saved states when a TPM is configured (7.0.10 regression, bug #21773)
- Networking: Fixed memory leaks in the VBoxIntNetSwitch process on macOS (bug #21752)
- Networking: Fixed TCP connections with IP addresses ending on .2 when the NAT network attachment is used (bug #21513)
- Audio: Fixed switching host audio devices on Windows hosts using the WAS backend (bugs #20431, #21517, #20630 and #20723)
- VRDP: Added general improvements
- VBoxManage: Added improvements for "list usbfilters" command
- Unattended: Added kick start file support for Oracle Linux 8 and Oracle Linux 9.
- Main: Added more Linux OS subtypes
- Host Services: Fixed Guest Properties service crash under rare circumstance
- Linux Host and Guest: Fixed few "field-spanning write" kernel warnings (bugs #21410 and #21862)
- Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for RHEL 8.9 and 9.3 kernel
- Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes for kernel 6.4
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for OpenSUSE 15.5 kernel
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernels 6.5 and 6.6
- Linux Guest Additions: Added version reporting for "rcvboxadd status-kernel" and "rcvboxadd status-user" commands
- BIOS: Restored support for ISA SCSI HBAs in the BIOS (bug #21736)
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7.0.10
- OCI: Introduced general improvements
- VMM: Fixed sluggish performance starting with macOS Ventura 13.3 (bug #21563, bug#21596)
- VMM: Fixed a bug while walking page tables while executing nested VMs causing flooding of the release log as a consequence (Intel hosts only, bug #21551)
- GUI: Added general improvements
- TPM: Fixed a crash when a VM has a TPM version 1.2 configured (bug #21622)
- 3D: Initial support for OpenGL 4.1
- 3D: Fixed various graphics issues with Windows 11 guests (bugs #21136, #21515)
- Guest Control/VBoxManage: Fixed parameter "--ignore-orphaned-processes"
- Guest Control/VBoxManage: Fixed behavior of how handling argument 0 for a started guest process works: One can now explicitly specify it with the newly added option "--arg0".
This will effectively restore the behavior of former VirtualBox versions
- Audio: Also use the PulseAudio backend when pipewire-pulse is running instead of falling back to ALSA (bug #21575)
- NAT: Adjusted UDP proxy timeout from 18-21 to 21-24 range to respect intended 20 second timeout (bug #21560)
- Linux Host: Added initial support for Indirect Branch Tracking (bug #21435)
- Linux Host: Added initial support for kernel 6.5 (NOTE: Guest Additions do not support kernel 6.5 yet)
- Solaris Host: Introduced general improvements in the installer area
- Linux Host and Guest: Improved condition check when kernel modules need to be signed
- Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 8.8 (bug #21692), 8.9 (bug #21690) and 9.3 (bugs #21598 and #21671) kernels
- MacOS Host and Guest: Introduced general improvements in the installer area
- Windows Host and Guest: Introduced ECDSA support (bug #21621)
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when kernel modules were rebuilt on each boot when guest system has no X11 installed
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.4
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when vboxvideo module reloading caused kernel panic in some guests (bug #21740)
- Linux Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in the installer area
- Windows Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in graphics drivers area
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