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Whats new:>>

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

    USB: Fix isochronous transfers to the VM for xHCI
    macOS host: Fix a possible crash when accessing VM related memory from the kernel
    Linux guest: Support Linux 5.5 (bug #19145)

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Whats new:>>

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

    GUI: Multiple enhancements including visual elements updates
    Graphics: Fixed monitor resizing and multi-monitor handling bugs on X11 guests with VMSVGA graphics adapter
    Graphics: Enhancements in 2D and 3D acceleration and rendering
    USB: Multiple enhancements improving prformance and stability
    Serial port: Improve error handling and fix hang when host port disappears
    VBoxManage: Multiple fixes for guestcontrol operations
    API: Fix for exception handling bug in Python bindings
    Shared clipboard: Multiple fixes including possible crash and HTML data support
    Linux host and guest: Support Linux kernel 5.6 (bug #19312)

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Whats new:>>

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

    USB: Multiple enhancements improving prformance and stability
    VBoxManage: Multiple fixes for guestcontrol command
    Graphics: Enhancements in 2D and 3D acceleration and rendering
    API: Fix for exception handling bug in Python bindings
    Linux host and guest: Support Linux kernel 5.6 (bug #19312)

http://www.virtualbox.org/

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Whats new:>>

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

    VBoxManage: Multiple fixes for guestcontrol command
    USB: Multiple enhancements improving prformance and stability
    Graphics: Enhancements in 2D and 3D acceleration and rendering
    API: Fix exception handling bug in Python bindings
    Linux: Support Linux kernel 5.6 (bug #19312)

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

    GUI: Fix several layout and mouse position handling bugs with soft keyboard
    GUI: Fixed crash on last VM removed (6.1.4 regression; bug #19568, #19525, #19506, #19490, #19481, #19397)
    GUI and API: Allow renaming VMs which are in saved state
    Serial: Fixed slow guest output when using the TCP server mode without anyone being connected
    Guest Additions: Restored 'VBoxClient--checkhostversion' functionality (6.1.0 regression; bug #19470)
    Guest Additions: Fixed resizing and multi monitor handling for X11 guests. (6.1.0 regression; bug #19496)
    Guest Additions: Build problems fix with Oracle Linux 8.2 (Red Hat compatible kernel) / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 / CentOS 8.2 (bug #19391)
    Guest Control/VBoxManage: Fixed handling of multiple environment variables supplied to 'VBoxManage guestcontrol VM run' (6.1.6/6.0.20 regression; bug #19518)
    Guest Control: Implemented support for long(er) command lines
    Guest Control: Various stability improvements

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

    Guest Additions: Build problems fix with Oracle Linux 8.2 (Red Hat compatible kernel) / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 / CentOS 8.2 (bug #19391)
    Guest Control/VBoxManage: fix handling of multiple environment variables supplied to 'VBoxManage guestcontrol VM run' (6.1.6/6.0.20 regression; bug #19518)

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

    Guest Additions: Build problems fix with Oracle Linux 8.2 (Red Hat compatible kernel) / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 / CentOS 8.2 (bug #19391)
    Guest Control: Various stability improvements

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

    GUI: Fixed crash when using Qt on Xwayland sessions (bug #19583)
    GUI: Fixed mouse pointer doesn't work properly in Windows guests when scaling is on (bug #19597)
    VBoxManage: Fixed crash of 'VBoxManage internalcommands repairhd' when processing invalid input (bug #19579)
    Settings: disable audio input and audio output by default for new VMs (bug #19527)
    Guest Additions: Fixed resizing and multi monitor handling for Wayland guests. (bug #19496)
    Guest Additions: Fixed VBoxClient error: The parent session seems to be non-X11. (bug #19590)
    Linux host and guest: Linux kernel version 5.7 support. (bug #19516)

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

    API: Fix unintentionally enabled audio due to a settings file version dependent bug
    VBoxManage: Fix crash of 'VBoxManage internalcommands repairhd' when processing invalid input (bug #19579)
    Guest Additions: Fix issues detecting guest additions ISO at runtime

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Changelog

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

    UI: Fixes for Log-Viewer search-backward icon
    Devices: Fixes and improvements for the BusLogic SCSI controller emulation
    Serial Port: Regression fixes in FIFO data handling
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration: Experimental new type of network attachment, allowing local VM to act as if it was run in cloud
    API: improved resource management in the guest control functionality
    VBoxManage: fixed command option parsing for the "snapshot edit" sub-command
    VBoxManage: Fix crash of 'VBoxManage internalcommands repairhd' when processing invalid input (bug #19579)
    Guest Additions, 3D: New experimental GLX graphics output
    Guest Additions, 3D: Fixed releasing texture objects, which could cause guest crashes
    Guest Additions: Fixed writes to a file on a shared folder not being reflected on the host when the file is mmap'ed and the used Linux kernel is between version 4.10.0 and 4.11.x
    Guest Additions: Fixed the shared folder driver on 32bit Windows 8 and newer returning an error when flushing writes to a file which is mapped into memory under rare circumstances
    Guest Additions: Improve resize coverage for VMSVGA graphics controller
    Guest Additions: Fix issues detecting guest additions ISO at runtime
    Guest Additions: Fixed German translation encoding for Windows GA installer

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

    API: Fix unintentionally enabled audio due to a settings file version dependent bug
    VBoxManage: Fix crash of 'VBoxManage internalcommands repairhd' when processing invalid input (bug #19579)

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Changelog

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

    GUI: Fixes file name changes in the File location field when creating Virtual Hard Disk (bug #19286)
    VMM: Fixed running VMs which failed to start with VERR_NEM_MISSING_KERNEL_API_2 when Hyper-V is used (bug #19779 and #19804)
    Audio: fix regression in HDA emulation introduced in 6.1.0
    macOS host: Fixed webcam passthrough and audio input on Mojave and newer by requesting authorization from the user (bug #19758)
    macOS host: VBoxHeadless no longer able to start VMs (6.1.4/6.0.18 regression; bug #19706)
    Windows host: Fixes in serial port implementation
    Shared Clipboard: Fixed a potential crash when copying HTML data (6.1.2 regression; bug #19226)
    Linux host and guest: Linux kernel version 5.8 support
    EFI: Fixed reading ISO9660 filesystems on attached media (6.1.0 regression; bug #19682)
    EFI: Support booting from drives attached to the LsiLogic SCSI and SAS controller emulations

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Changelog

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

    VMM: Fixed random memory corruption and XMM register state corruption inside the VM when Hyper-V is used (bug #19695)
    VMM: Fixed VMSVGA 3D support with Linux guests when Hyper-V is used (bug #19884)
    GUI: Fixed some Qt related crashes on macOS Big Sur
    Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration: Fixed network integration not working behind some proxies
    USB: Mask out remote wake capability to avoid unresponsive devices
    Audio: Fixed issues with audio playback after host goes to sleep (bug #18594)
    Serial: Keep transferring data if the status line monitoring fails
    Serial: Fixed blocking a re-connect when TCP mode is used (bug #19878)
    HPET: Fixed inability of guests to use the last timer
    VBoxManage: Fixed detection of system locale when running 'VBoxManage unattended install' without --locale (bug #19856)
    macOS host: Installer on Big Sur is now reminding user that system has to be rebooted to load the installed KEXTs
    Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.9 (bug #19845)
    Linux guest: Workaround to improve resizing of 32-bit VMs with VMSVGA graphics controller, and do not try to use RandR version 1.3 due to bugs causing the X server to hang
    Linux guest: Fixed VBoxService crashing in the CPU hot-plug service under certain circumstances during a CPU hot-unplug event (bugs #19902 and #19903)
    Linux guest: Fixed Guest additions build for RHEL 8.3 beta (bug #19863)

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Changelog

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

    Nested VM: Fixed hangs when executing SMP nested-guests under certain conditions on Intel hosts (bug #19315, #19561)
    OCI integration: Cloud Instance parameters parsing is improved on import (bug #19156)
    Network: UDP checksum offloading in e1000 no longer produces zero checksums (bug #19930)
    Network: Fixed Host-Only Ethernet Adapter DHCP, guest os can not get IP on host resume (bug #19620)
    NAT: Fixed mss parameter handing (bug #15256)
    macOS host: Multiple optimizations for BigSur
    Audio: Fixed issues with audio playback after host goes to sleep (bug #18594)
    Documentation: Some content touch-up and table formatting fixes
    Linux host and guest: Support kernel version 5.10 (bug #20055)
    Solaris host: Fix regression breaking VGA text mode since version 6.1.0
    Guest Additions: Fixed a build failure affecting CentOS 8.2-2004 and later (bug #20091)
    Guest Additions: Fixed a build failure affecting Linux kernels 3.2.0 through 3.2.50 (bug #20006)
    Guest Additions: Fixed a VM segfault on copy with shared clipboard with X11 (bug #19226)
    Shared Folder: Fixed error with remounting on Linux guests

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Changelog

    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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