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VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers (e.g. bugs #12224, #12544)
VMM: fixed a VERR_INVALID_RPL Guru Meditation when booting certain guests (bug #11350)
VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see the manual for more information how to enable it (bug #8651)
VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization
GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see the manual for more information
GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and the user tries to activate the remote display feature (bug #9104)
GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in fullscreen/seamless mode) keeps the minimized state (bug #12199)
GUI: popup banner's "do not show this message again" check-box replaced with corresponding button
GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar indicator
GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types (bug #12533)
GUI: better error message if appliance import fails (bug #12657)
VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported several times
Storage: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances if the AHCI controller is used
AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)
AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions
AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions
AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes
NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used (bug #12441)
NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with ICMP packets having TTL=1
NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly
NAT Network: ping proxy implemented
OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element (4.3 regression; bug #12345)
OVF: several fixes
3D: several fixes, multiscreen fixes (e.g. bug #9124)
3D: include 3D content in captured videos (bug #12666)
3D: include 3D content in captured screenshot (bug #11758)
VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest Additions are active (bug #6649)
USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare circumstances
BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives
API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)
VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events (see the manual for more information) and added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low event (bug #9925)
VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups (bug #12569)
Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders when starting a VM from a saved state (bug #12578)
Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network (bug #12241)
Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining the number of physical CPU cores
Linux hosts / guests: don't warn in kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)
Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script (bug #11720)
Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar environment contents (bug #12596)
Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables (relevant for Guest Control)
Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray (bug #12563)
Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users
Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on XPDM -> WDDM upgrade
Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables
Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels (bug #12505)
Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels
Linux / Solaris Additions: don't automount a shared folder which is already mounted
X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15 (bug #12623)
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This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added since VirtualBox 4.3.6:

    VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers (e.g. bugs #12224, #12544)
    VMM: fixed a VERR_INVALID_RPL Guru Meditation when booting certain guests (bug #11350)
    VMM: experimental support for SSE 4.1 / SSE 4.2 passthrough, see the manual for more information how to enable it (bug #8651)
    VMM: fix for recent Linux kernels with software virtualization
    GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows hosts, see the manual for more information
    GUI: warn the user if the Oracle Extension Pack is not installed and the user tries to activate the remote display feature (bug #9104)
    GUI: make sure that a minimized guest (using mini toolbar in fullscreen/seamless mode) keeps the minimized state (bug #12199)
    GUI: popup banner's "do not show this message again" check-box replaced with corresponding button
    GUI: network adapter cables can now be connected/disconnected directly through the running virtual machine Devices / Network menu a Network status-bar indicator
    GUI: the new VM wizard now proposes 64-bit guests on 64-bit hosts by default; better distinction between 32-bit OS types 64-bit OS types (bug #12533)
    GUI: better error message if appliance import fails (bug #12657)
    GUI: allow to set host-combination to 'None' using the Global settings / Input page (bug #12730)
    GUI: don't switch the guest to a black screen during online snapshot merge (4.3 regression)
    VBoxManage: when exporting an appliance, support the suppression of MAC addresses, which means they will be always recreated on import, avoiding duplicate MAC addresses for VMs which are imported several times
    AHCI: fixed a VM hang during suspend under certain circumstances
    AHCI: fixed a VM hang during online snapshot merge under certain circumstances
    AHCI: fixed a bug which resulted in Windows XP guest hangs if a SATA CDROM is attached (bug #12417)
    AHCI: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions
    AHCI: ejecting a CD/DVD medium failed under certain conditions
    AHCI: disk hotplugging fixes
    NAT: transparent handling of host sleep/resume and network configuration changes if the dnsproxy is enabled or if the hostresolver is used (bug #12441)
    NAT: fixed crash and misbehaviour under some circumstances with ICMP packets having TTL=1
    NAT Network: fixed IPv6 reassembly
    NAT Network: ping proxy implemented
    OVF: fixed reading of the OVF 0.9 section element (4.3 regression; bug #12345)
    OVF: several fixes
    3D: several fixes, multiscreen fixes (e.g. bug #9124)
    3D: include 3D content in captured videos (bug #12666)
    3D: include 3D content in captured screenshot (bug #11758)
    VGA: proper handling of legacy graphics modes if the Guest Additions are active (bug #6649)
    USB: fixed crash during isochronous transfer under rare circumstances
    BIOS: better disk geometry handling of SCSI drives
    API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)
    VBoxSVC: documented the handling of host power management events (see the manual for more information) and added an extradata item for configuring the handling of the battery-low event (bug #9925)
    VBoxSVC: fixed a bug which could trigger a crash if a VM snapshot was restored the second time and the VM has associated bandwidth groups (bug #12569)
    VBoxSVC: properly detect ifconfig if located in /bin (bug #12713)
    Shared Folders: fixed a failure to restore transient shared folders when starting a VM from a saved state (bug #12578)
    Mac OS X hosts: fixed issue when the application icon was frozen in the dock if the bridging interface was not connected to a network (bug #12241)
    Linux hosts: also consider the physical package ID when determining the number of physical CPU cores
    Linux hosts / guests: don't warn in kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)
    Solaris hosts: fixed the autostart SMF script (bug #11720)
    Windows hosts: fixes for non-ANSI code page user names and similar environment contents (bug #12596)
    Windows hosts / guests: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables (relevant for Guest Control)
    Windows Additions: fixed handle leaks in VBoxTray (bug #12563)
    Windows Additions: fixed a crash while detecting active guest users
    Windows Additions: fixed restoring backed up D3D files on XPDM -> WDDM upgrade
    Guest Control: fixed setting and using a guest user's process environment variables
    Linux Additions: support Enterprise Linux 6.5 kernels (bug #12505)
    Linux Additions: fixed CPU hot-remove on newer Linux kernels
    Linux / Solaris Additions: don't automount a shared folder which is already mounted
    X11 Additions: support X.Org Server 1.15 (bug #12623)
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Version 4.3.10 (2014-03-25)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
 VMM: more work on improving the emulation of certain MSR registers on certain host
CPUs (e.g. bugs #12734, #12736, #12744, #12748, #12686, #12770)
 VMM: fixed single-stepping for real-mode guests (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution) and some I/O instructions (bug #12636)
 VMM: fixed a potential problem with COW pages if nested paging is not available
 GUI: Mac OS X: experimental native full screen support for Mountain Lion and Mavericks
(bug #12292)
 GUI: Mac OS X: removed the mini-toolbar minimize button which doesn’t work under Mac
OS X full screen mode anyway
 GUI: experimental HID LEDs synchronization for Windows and Mac OS X hosts: fixed
keyboard re-synchronization if the feature is disabled (as done by default; bug #12758)
 GUI: fixed a potential crash when opening the preferences menu (bug #12862)
 OVF: fixed a crash of the VirtualBox Manager when re-starting guest export (bug #12586)
 3D support: several fixes
 HGCM: fixed a problem with saved states which could cause several guest misbehavior
after a VM was started from a saved state
 Storage: fixed a bug preventing to compact differential snapshots under certain conditions
 VBoxSVC: fixed a segmentation fault on Linux hosts if a very long path exists under /dev
(bug #12760)
 API: fixed guest misbehavior under certain conditions if a storage medium was attached or
removed at VM runtime
 Windows installer: make the –silent parameter work again (bug #12764)
 Mac OS X Networking: prevent local traffic (VM-to/from-host) from leaking to wire (bug
#12750)
 Windows Additions: fixed the environment for guest processes (4.3.8 regression; bug
#12782)
Windows Additions/WDDM: fixed divide by zero exception with multiple guest screens
under certain conditions
 Linux Additions: install correctly on Ubuntu guest systems with a /usr/lib64 directory (bug
#12513)
 X11 Additions: fix for the VBoxClient process not exiting correctly (bug #12348) and
consuming too much processor time
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Neue Version ist raus ... wer wissen will was los war -> https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/12868

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This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added since VirtualBox 4.3.10:

    VMM: fixed an occasional Guru Meditation (Mac OS X hosts only; bugs #12727, #12954)
    VMM: fixed a rare condition that would fail to invalidate guest TLB entries or would invalidate them when not required (Windows hosts only)
    VMM: fixed a VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED Guru Meditation seen with certain guests, e.g. OpenServer 5.0.7
    VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (tickets #12240, #12875)
    GUI: fixed mouse positioning with mouse integration disabled and multiple guest screens (Windows hosts only; bug #9059)
    GUI: fixed crash in VM manager (bug #12878)
    GUI: fixed crash under rare conditions on entering/exiting fullscreen/seamless mode
    Shared Clipboard: don't stop working after taking a snapshot (bug #12700)
    AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances
    API: fixed a hang during VM shutdown under rare conditions
    NAT: fixed generation of malformed ICMP error datagrams (4.3.10 regression)
    NAT: fixed potential crash in DNS proxy
    NAT Network: don't drop port forwarding rules after some time
    NAT: fixed ARP cache corruption and network loss in Windows guest caused by iSCSI service activity
    USB: improved check if a storage device is currently mounted to the host when the device is about to be attached to the VM (Mac OS X hosts only; #11038)
    3D support: several fixes, including better support for Ubuntu 14.04
    VRDP: fixed a potential crash on client disconnect (bug #12858)
    VBoxSVC: fixed a race when a new client is started a few seconds after the last client terminated (Windows hosts only; bugs #11309, #12509)
    VBoxSVC: fixed VirtualBox.xml registry corruption after VM renaming
    VBoxSVC: fixed a potential crash caused by incorrect USB device filter (Mac OS X hosts only; #11038)
    Windows hosts: partly support 32-bit COM on 64-bit systems
    Windows host installer: implemented merge module (msm) support
    Linux hosts: fixed dependency of boot script on older Debian systems (bug #12262)
    Linux guests: fix symbolic link to shared folder helper (bug #12879)
    Linux Additions: don't crash VBoxService during guest execute for users without a password (bug #12994)
    Linux Additions: fixed a bug in guest execution where the guest process terminated with VERR_INTERRUPTED to the host

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VMM: more fixes for MSR emulation on certain hardware (bugs #12784, #12949, #13034)
VMM: improve MSI handling under rare circumstances (only relevant for the ICH9 chipset)
VMM: fixed #UD exception for 64-bit guests with the EFER.SCE bit and the SYSCALL instruction (VT-x only; 4.3 regression; bug #13008)
VMM: fixed timekeeping after resuming a multi-CPU VM
GUI: fixed a potential crash
GUI: fixed stuck AltGr key on Windows hosts (bug #2537)
GUI: fixed a potential error during the version check
GUI: shortcut change should not require Enter/Return (or other trigger) to confirm (bugs #12828, #12847, #12937, #13087)
NAT: fixed inbound half-close (bug #13116)
NAT: fixed slow upload speed under certain conditions (bug #10034)
NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Mac OS X hosts
NAT Network: fixed socket leak on Solaris hosts
NAT Network: fixed ping of mapped host loopback on Mac OS X and Solaris hosts, fixed proxying of IMCP errors on Mac OS X
Host-Only Network: fixed SNMP ifConnectorPresent value on Windows (bug #13143)
Storage: fixed a possible crash with CD/DVD passthrough under certain circumstances
Storage: fixed a crash when trying to open an inaccessible QED or QCOW image (bug #12613)
Storage: fixed data corruption or read errors under rare circumstances
AHCI: fixed a crash under rare circumstances
USB: performance fixes
ICH9: properly reset MSI capability on reset
3D: fixed misbehavior with huge guests (i.e. guest more than 4GB guest memory
3D: several fixes
API: properly detect the Windows 8.1 guest OS type (bug #13090)
Linux hosts / guests: compile fix for EL7 (bug #12638)
Linux Additions: made 3D pass-through work with recent versions of Mesa in the guest (bug #12941)
Mac OS X hosts: when scanning for host CD/DVD devices also consider BlueRay devices
OS/2 Additions: fixed gengradd.dll library name (bug #12785)
Solaris Additions: fixed permissions of files and directories located on shared folders

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It turned out that installing the Extension Pack did not work with the original RC1 candidate (build 94870). Sorry for that! We've fixed this problem and uploaded build 94905 which includes a proper fix.

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Oracle today released maintenance releases which improve stability and fix regressions. See the respective changelogs for details.

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Release Notes

- VMM: fixed restoring 32-bit FPU state on 64-bit capable VMs and restoring guest FPU in raw-mode VMs (bug #12646; 4.3 regression)
- GUI: properly restore normal/scale mode guest-screen size after exiting full-screen/seamless mode
- GUI: mini-toolbar should provoke less artifacts/conflicts with 3D guest rendering
- GUI: Mac OS X: Native full-screen multi-screen transition was able to blackout host-screens for nearly minute
- GUI: X11: Modern window managers should now use native full-screen multi-screen mapping API
- GUI: added extradata item for configuring the mouse capture behavior, see the manual for more information (bug #3506)
- Storage: fixed a VBoxSVC crash when querying an iSCSI target with authentication configured (4.3.14 regression)
- Storage: fixed a rare data corruption during reads if another allocating write is running concurrently and accesses the same range
- Storage: fixed a rare crash for certain VHD images from other products
- Storage: fixed a rare release assertion when using the AHCI controller
- Floppy: fixed read errors and guest memory corruption when running under control of QEMM
- 3D: added experimental support for rendering on offline GPUs for Mac OS X host
- 3D: fixed white window appearing on entering FullScreen mode on OSX host
- 3D: fixed video recording support for 3D data regression (bug #13073)
- 3D: fixes for MS Office 2013 support
- 3D: several fixes
- Bridged Networking: improved IPv6 support when bridging to a wireless interface
- NAT: prevent internal DNS service from stuck in host-resolver mode when host was switched from one network to another one while host was sleeping (Mac OS X hosts)
- NAT: preserve DF (if possible) and TOS when proxying outbound UDP datagrams (bugs #9440, #12309)
- NAT: don't let multicast datagrams out (bug #7338)
- NAT: fixed handling of large incoming UDP datagrams on Windows hosts (bug #12136)
- NAT: fixed handling of the RFC 1533 DHCP PAD option
- NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Windows hosts
- NAT Network: preserve IPv4 DF (if possible), TTL, TOS and IPv6 Hop Limit when proxying outbound UDP datagrams
- VRDP: fixed a rare crash when using remote audio input
- USB: fixed several regressions from 4.3.14 (bug #13320)
- Audio: made the HDA sound emulation work with certain OSX guests (e.g. Mountain Lion)
- Windows hosts: fixed startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software (4.3.14 regression, bug #13187)
- Windows hosts: fixed 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216)
- X11 hosts: made the extra key on Brazilian Thinkpads work (bug #8745)
- X11 hosts: fixed a problem of input focus cycles and immediately released key presses in full screen mode (bug #13238)
- Linux hosts: fixed flooding the kernel log with USB related messages when passing through certain USB devices to a VM (bug #13085)
- Linux guests: stop applications crashing when drm_wait_vblank is called (bug #13265)
- Linux guests: fix a crash in gnome-session (bug #13335)
- X11 guests: do not start VBoxClient over an SSH connection (bug #13107)
- X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.16 (bug #13207)
- X11 guests: fixed a wrong parameter in the video driver which caused problems with full-screen X11 clients (bug #2748)
- VirtualKD: introduced stub/loader device for speeding up Windows kernel debugging, details see http://virtualkd.sysprogs.org/

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Changelog

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

• VMM: fixed a potential misbehavior after restoring the A20 state from a saved state
• GUI: fixed full-screen mode mini-toolbar related regressions for different platforms and
window managers (bug #13369)
• GUI: X11: fixed full-screen mode Unity panels quirk caused by mini-toolbar code changes
in last release (bug #13365)
• GUI: X11: added possibility to use legacy full-screen mode as the new one can cause multiscreen issues under Unity, see here (bug #13365)
• GUI: Mac OS X: fixed full-screen mode artifact causing black screen when 3D acceleration
was enabled on 10.10 Yosemite hosts (bug #13448)
• GUI: Mac OS X: fixed regression in user-space swiping from/to VBox in full-screen mode
• GUI: Mac OS X: fixed issue with switching to VBox in full-screen mode through Alt+Tab
and Mission Control
• Storage: fixed data corruption when resizing huge VHD images under certain circumstances (bug #11960)
• Storage: fixed a rare hang during startup when the BIOS enumerates the storage devices
attached to the SATA controller
• Storage: follow the spec with AHCI interrupt acknowledge (bug #13474)
• Storage: fixed broken iSCSI authentication (4.3.14 regression, bugs #13386, #13435)
• NAT Network: properly parse port forwarding rules to allow UDP rules
• USB: fixed a crash on Linux hosts with older Linux kernels (bug #13400) and several other
fixes
• ACPI: fixed ACPI timer anomalies (bug #12076)
• Guest Control: fixed a memory leak (bug #13434)
• Main: when removing a VM, do also remove the VBoxStartup.log file which might exist on
Windows hosts (bug #13478)
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• Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts
with anti-virus software; better error reporting (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)
• Windows hosts: propagate the process startup information to the child process (4.3.14
regression; bug #13243)
• Mac OS X hosts: don’t force using the discrete GPU (bug #11111)
• Windows Additions: some Windows 10 tweaks
• X11 guests: fix a bug handling video driver display properties which prevented GNOME
Shell on Fedora 21 from starting
• Linux hosts / guests: fixed a few remaining warnings in the kernel log if memory allocation
fails (bug #11171)

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Changelog

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

    VMM: fixed reboot hang of 32-bit Windows SMP guests (bug #13319, #13462)
    VMM: proper Math Fault handling with certain legacy guests (bug #9042, AMD hosts)
    VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation VINF_EM_TRIPLE_FAULT on older CPUs that don't support MSR-bitmaps (VT-x only; bugs #13034, #13125, #13311, #13425, #13426, #13463, #13585)
    GUI: fix 3D overlay window re-parenting issue when VM goes to full screen mode on X11 hosts.
    GUI: fix occasional loss of focus in full-screen mode on X11 host systems (4.3.16 regression)
    GUI: Mac OS X: wizards should have Cancel button (bug #12541)
    GUI: added a global option to prevent automatic raising of the new window by mouse move with multi-screen guests (bug #8878)
    API: accept remote display port 0 as the default RDP port (bug #8534)
    VBoxManage: fixed crash when executing showvminfo command under certain circumstances (bug #13190)
    ACPI: fixed occasional Guru Meditations in ACPI timer code (4.3.18 regression; bug #13521)
    EFI: improved performance of IDE disk access
    EFI: fixed a bug in the EFI video driver which prevented Windows to boot in UEFI mode (bug #12022)
    EFI: properly announce the amount of RAM for big VMs (bugs #11103 and #13211)
    Storage: fixed a crash under certain circumstances when a medium was ejected from a drive attached to the SATA controller without inserting a new medium before pausing or closing the VM (4.3.16 regression)
    Storage: fixed an interrupt acknowledge issue causing hanging guests or slower I/O (4.3.18 regression)
    Storage: fixed broken resume after the VM was suspended due to a full disk if host I/O caching is used
    Storage: fixed a Guru Meditation under certain conditions when using the DevLsiLogic controller with VMs running in raw mode (4.3 regression; bugs #12254, #12655, #12709, #12774, #12886)
    Guest Control: fixed a bug which might lead to a crash during recursive copy
    SDK: Java COM bindings fixes
    iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol (bug #13628)
    Runtime: do not use a fixed stack size creating temporary threads during initialization (bug #13038)
    Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)
    Windows hosts: fixed DirectSound host audio failure under certain conditions (bug #13418)
    Windows hosts: fixed additional cases of 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216)
    Windows Additions: preserve guest monitor layout when resizing Windows 7 or newer guests
    Linux Additions: Linux 3.18 compile fixes (bug #13515)

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Changelog

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

VMM: refined measurement of TSC frequency on the host, improves timekeeping for guests
VMM: decreased CPU load resulting from guest MMIO writes to the virtual APIC
VMM: fixed interception of debug exceptions, observed while using the dbx debugger on Solaris guests (VT-x only)
GUI: 3D overlay window positioning code improved, fixed potential misplacement of 3D accelerated guest graphics content
GUI: fixed accident SSL authentication failures during update check on Windows hosts (bug #12969)
GUI: never send the "ACPI power" keyboard scancode to the guest, we have the ACPI power button for that
GUI: was unable to properly restore seamless mode VM from snapshot/saved-state under some circumstances
VBoxHeadless: don't crash if 3D is enabled in the VM settings (bug #10250)
ATA: fixed several passthrough issues (bugs #12310, #1360)
Audio: fixed DirectSound failure when the the host has no audio input device (Windows hosts only; bug #9205)
SB16: fixed compatibility issue (bug #13769)
Storage: fixed broken CD/DVD passthrough when using the IDE controller (bug #12310)
NAT: new ping proxy for Windows hosts (bug #11871)
NAT: Properly report outbound connect(2) failures to guest with TCP RST or ICMP (bug #10525)
NAT Network: no need for frequent wakeups in VBoxNetDHCP and VBoxNetNAT (bug #11681)
Host-only adapter: prevent Windows from creating an "Unidentified network" (bug #9688)
Bridged Networking: don't leak host-to-guest traffic to the wireless network when bridging to a wireless interface (bug #13714)
Main: fixed a possible race when changing the medium leading to a deadlock under rare conditions (bug #13722)
VBoxManage: fixed return code if starting a VM failed (bug #13773)
API: fixed 2 deadlock opportunities related to medium handling (bugs #13789, #13801, thank you Alexander Urakov)
API: fixed bug in XPCOM which created too few worker threads, sporadically resulting in a deadlock (bug #13802, thank you Alexander Urakov)
SDK: fixed a garbage collection leak in the Python VirtualBox webservice API binding (bug #13817)
Linux hosts: fixes for activated SMAP (Broadwell and later, bug #13820)
X11 guests: prevent unwanted hiding of guest screens on multi-monitor guests (bug #13287)
X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.17
X11 Additions: fixed a memory leak in VBoxService if libdbus is available but dbus-daemon isn't running (bug #13770)
Windows Additions: prevent VBox WDDM driver from loading if host reports weak OpenGL capabilities. 3D content now can be shown over Remote Desktop connection.
Winodws Additions: some fixes for recent Windows 10 Previews
Linux Additions: fixed a compatibility issue with 64-bit Linux 2.4 kernels
Linux Additions: fixed a potential use-after-free when unloading the VBoxGuest module
Linux Additions: Linux 3.19 fixes (bug #13741)

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