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

VMM: emulation fix for the ENTER instruction under certain conditions; fixes Solaris 10 guests (VT-x without unrestricted guest execution)
VMM: fix for handling NMIs on Linux hosts with X2APIC enabled
NAT/NAT Network: fix connection drops when the host's DHCP lease was renewed (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #13839)
NAT: don't crash on an empty domain list when switching the DNS host configuration (4.3.22 regression; Mac OS X hosts only; bug #13874)
PXE: re-enable it on Windows hosts (4.3.22 regression; Windows hosts only; bug #13842)
Shared Folders: fixed a problem with Windows guests (4.3.22 regression; bug #13786)
Audio: improved record quality when using the DirectSound audio backend
VBoxManage: when executing the controlvm command take care that the corresponding VM runtime changes are saved permanently (bug #13892)
Windows Installer: properly install the 32-bit version of VBoxRes.dll on 32-bit hosts (bug #13876)
Linux hosts / guests: Linux 4.0 fixes (bug #13835)
OS/2 Additions: fixed mouse integration (4.3.22 regression; bug #13825)
X11 Additions: fixed a sporadic failure to deactivate virtual screens (bug #13845)

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

GUI: in the snapshots pane, protect the age of snapshots against wrong host time (bug #13955)
NAT Network: fixed a bug which prevented to propagate any DNS name server / domain / search string information to the NAT network (4.3.24 regression; bugs #13915, #13918)
NAT Network: don't delay the shutdown of VBoxSVC on Windows hosts
Mouse support: the mouse could not be moved under rare conditions if no Guest Additions are installed (4.3.24 regression; bug #13935)
Storage: if the guest ejects a virtual CD/DVD medium, make the change permanent (bugs #9858, #12885)
VGA: made saving secondary screen sizes possible in X11 guests
SDK: fixed the VirtualBox.tlb file (4.3.20 regression; bug #13943)
rdesktop-vrdp: make it work with USB devices again (4.3.14 regression; bug #13901)
USB: fixed a possible BSOD on Windows hosts under rare conditions
iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628)
Mac OS X hosts: don't panic on hosts with activated SMAP (Broadwell and later; bug #13951)
Linux hosts: don't crash Linux 4.0 hosts (bug #13835)

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Paravirtualization support for Windows and Linux guests to improve time-keeping accuracy and performance
Make more instruction set extensions available to the guest when running with hardware-assisted virtualization and nested paging. Among others this includes: SSE 4.1, SSE4.2, AES-NI, POPCNT, RDRAND and RDSEED
xHCI Controller to support USB 3 devices
Drag'n drop support (bidirectional) for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
Disk image encryption
GUI: VM guest-content scaling support (including 3D acceleration)
GUI: New User Interface settings page for customizing status-bar, menu-bar and guest-content scaling
GUI: New Encryption settings tab for customizing encryption options for disk images
GUI: HiDPI support including application icons and optional unscaled HiDPI output on Mac OS X (including 3D acceleration)
GUI: Hotplugging support for SATA disks
New, modular audio architecture for providing a better abstraction of the host audio backends

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

VMM: improved timing on Solaris hosts with older VT-x hosts without preemption timers
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
USB: added USB traffic capturing
API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks, their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM config corruption
API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense
API: fix information for some automatically generated events (only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice (bug #12379)
API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)
API: a number of settings (e.g. network settings) can now also be changed when the VM is in saved state

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VMM: added support for using paravirtualization providers with raw-mode VMs
GUI: encryption passwords no more centered (see here)
GUI: canceling encryption password prompt at VM startup proposing to close VM (see here)
GUI: Enter/Return key press for the last (or single) entry of the encryption password prompt accepts the dialog (see here)
GUI: VM menu-bar contents reordering - moving some of unusual for the Help menu stuff into separate File menu (see here)
GUI: scaling support will use the old smooth mechanism for the software renderer case (see here)
GUI: optimized medium enumeration for the large differencing trees
GUI: USB controller types for the given VM are now reflected in VM details pane
GUI: avoid error message during shutdown of a separate VM (see here)
GUI: fixed a rare crash when starting VM in separate mode
Drag and drop: fixed a crash when copying over host elements to the guest
Audio: don't crash when attaching via RDP to a VM with disabled audio (see here)
Input: fixed vertical scrolling and buttons 4/5 in PS/2 !ImEx protocol (see here)
3D: fix crash on restoring state on X11 hosts (bug #12737)
Bridged Networking: avoid host networking stack pause/restart on VM start/stop/pause (Windows hosts only; see here)
API: fixed long-standing issue (Windows host only) which caused loss of error information for the VM start operation
API: fixed too strict condition for changing extradata settings of newly created VMs (see here)
API: fixed too strict condition for creating persistent shared folders (see here)
rdesktop-vrdp: upgraded to version 1.8.3
BIOS: fix for booting from SCSI CD/DVD media (see here)
BIOS: fix for reads partially beyond end of disk (bug 14021)
Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and allow more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI)
Linux Additions: fix for Linux guest kernels < 2.6.13 (e.g. RHEL4; see here)
Added serial port forwarding via TCP socket

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VMM: XSAVE, AVX and AVX-2 are now exposed to the guest (bug #11347)
VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation when rebooting certain guests (for example Solaris doing fast reboot) by fixing the implementation for INIT IPI)
GUI: Encryption progress reflection (see here)
GUI: Encryption errors handling (see here)
GUI: Properly disable unavailable menu actions (see here)
GUI: properly report errors when trying to save the VM settings instead instead of dead-locking (see here)
API: allow to hotplug SATA optical devices (see here)
VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038)
USB: fixed attaching of high speed USB devices if xHCI is not present (they always ended up on the OHCI controller)
Audio: improved volume control
Audio: fixed SB16 playback
Drag and drop: Transfers can be canceled properly, bug fixes
Guest Control: Major overhaul, for example fixing wrong parameter quoting (bug #13157)
Shared Folders: fixed a crash when removing (in some cases also when creating) a shared folder when the VM is running (see here)
OVA: fixed importing of appliances without attached hard disks (see here)
Snapshots: fixed a bug in handling a saved state when taking an offline snapshot
Snapshots: fixed a sporadic bug when restoring a snapshot which left unused diff images behind
VirtualKD: re-added device which was omitted by accident (see here)
Windows hosts: more hardening fixes (e.g. bugs #14051, #14052)
Additions/X.Org: fixed guest-to-host mouse mapping for Solaris and Linux Mint/Ubuntu 12.04.0 guests.
Additions/X.Org: fixed resizing problem in openSUSE 10.3 and guests of a similar generation (see here)
documented the Guest Additions heartbeat service

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

VMM: fixed a Guru Meditation when rebooting certain guests (for example Solaris doing fast reboot) by fixing the implementation for INIT IPI
VMM: added some information for diagnosing rare VERR_VMX_INVALID_VMXON_PTR Guru Meditations (VT-x only)
GUI: HID LEDs sync: prevent synchronization if VM window has no focus (Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)
GUI: fixed drag and drop moving the cursor between guest screens on certain hosts
3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state on X11 hosts (bug #12737)
3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state
3D: fixed a crash on Linux guest shutdown (bug #12772)
VRDP: fixed incompatibility with rdesktop 1.8.3
VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038)
Storage: don't crash if creating an asynchronous I/O context fails (e.g. when starting many VMs) and show a proper error message
Floppy: several fixes
Audio: improved the behavior of the volume control for the HD audio device emulation
USB: increase the number of supported drivers from 3 to 5 (Windows hosts only)
PS/2 keyboard: synchronize the LED state on VM restore (Windows and Mac OS X hosts only)
NAT Network: when running multiple NAT networks with multiple VMs, only stop the respective services when stopping VMs (bug #14090)
NAT: don't kill UDP bindings on ICMP errors (bug #13475)
NAT: bandwidth limit now works properly with NAT (bug #11485)
BIOS: fixed the returned size value of the VBE 2.0 PMI function 0Ah (4.2.0 regression; bug #14096)
Guest Control: fixed parameter quoting in Windows guests (bug #13157)
Webcam passthrough improvements for Linux (V4L2) hosts to support more webcam models
API: don't fail starting a VM with VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE under certain conditions (bug #13617)
API: be more verbose on VBOX_E_INVALID_OBJECT_STATE if a medium is attached to a running VM (bug #13560)
API: fixed a bug which could result in losing certain screen resize events with multi-monitor guests
rdesktop-vrdp: fixed path to the keymaps (bug #12066)
rdesktop-vrdp: switch to version 1.8.3
Windows hosts: more hardening fixes (e.g. bugs #14051, #14052)
Linux hosts: another fix for activated SMAP on Linux 3.19 and newer (Broadwell and later; bug #13961)
Linux hosts: Linux 4.1 compile fix (bug #14081)
Solaris hosts: fixed using of VNIC templates with Crossbow based bridged networking to be compatible with vanity interface names
Mac OS X hosts: fixed crash during VM termination under rare circumstances
Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and allow more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI)
X11 Additions: prevent flickering when updating mouse cursor
Solaris Additions: fixed incorrect usage of 'prtconf' while installing Guest Additions (Solaris 10 only)

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VMM: some XSAVE fixes
GUI: hot-plugging support for USB storage controller.
GUI: fixed icons for savestate/restorestate and some of icons for HiDPI aware Win/X11 hosts.
NAT: don't kill UDP bindings on ICMP errors (bug #13475)
Drag and drop: various bugfixes for Linux hosts and guests
Encryption: fixed cloning VMs
Audio: Fixed volume control for mono streams
Audio/SB16: Fixed loss of output after loading saved state.
USB3: fixed attaching multiple emulated disks to the xHCI controller
3D: fixed a crash on restoring the VM state (bug #12737)
Snapshots: fixed Beta 3 regression
VBoxManage: fixed reading the partition table on Windows
iSCSI: fixed a hang during power off if the initiator connects to the target over the internal network

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GUI: NLS fixes. NLS strings are now frozen.
GUI: Improved HiDPI support for Windows host, icons/size-hint adjustments.
GUI: Use fast scaling mechanism for integer scale-factors (s. a. here).
Separate UI/VM: fixed completely broken re-attaching to a headless VM.
Drag and drop: fixed hang when reporting host errors such as inaccessible (locked) files.
PCNet: OpenStep fix (bug #10545)
Host-only networking: an attempt to fix some VERR_SUPDRV_COMPONENT_NOT_FOUND problems
NAT: Don't forcibly reset/drop all connections when link goes down
AHCI: fixed a possible hand during VM shutdown
Audio: fix audio output if the default output device changes, before this fix it would always stream to the output device being the default when the VM was started
VBoxSVC: don't keep the support driver permanently open
VBoxManage addencpassword: read the command line from the console or from a file
vbox-img: added resize command
X11 Additions: fix for X.org servers with RandR 1.1

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VMM: fixed a GP in SUPR0QueryVTCaps (see here)
VMM: fixed a raw mode bug (5.0.0 RC1 regression)
xHCI: fixed resuming from a saved state (see here)
USB: improve playback with USB sound devices attached to the emulated OHCI controller
Audio: provide Linux guests a different AC97 audio codec type so Linux ALSA doesn't mis-detect the link speed (default for new VMs)
Drag and drop: enabled guest to host support for OS X hosts
Drag and drop: fixed freezes and crashes in some error cases
API: OS type description consistency fix (bug #14162)
API: fixed a check which prevented changing the network promiscuous mode at runtime
API: don't keep OVA files open after import
API: don't resume a VM on host-resume unless it was previously paused due to a host-suspend (see here)
API: don't lose the saved state and "current state changed" flag during cloning of a VM
ExtPack: don't fail if the TMP directory contains non-latin1 characters (bug #14159)
Mac OS X hosts: don't crash when upgrading from VBox 4.3.28 which has a bug in handling the CR4.VMXE bit
Solaris hosts: Solaris 12 installer fix
X11 Additions: fixed wrong DPI value (bug #14151)

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VirtualBox 5.0 will be a new major release. Here is an incomplete list of changes since VirtualBox 5.0 Release Candidate 2:

    VMM: fixed a problem with large pages in Hyper-V (see here)
    VMM: when using the KVM PV provider, use the same frequency for all VCPUs. This will fix slow boots on certain hosts.
    VMM: fixed a hang under certain conditions for SMP guests (32-bit hosts only)
    VMM: several fixes
    AHCI: fixed a crash during shutdown under rare conditions
    AHCI: fixed crash as a result of I/O errors in certain conditions (bug #13105)
    Audio: fixed a VM hang with the ALSA backend with certain ALSA configurations
    VGA: fixed loading of saved state if 2D Video Acceleration is enabled (see here)
    GUI: apply user interface settings from corresponding page only after pressing OK, not instantly on-the-fly (see here)
    GUI: remember size-hints and enabled/disabled states for secondary guest-screens in multi-screen setups on VM restart
    Drag and drop: various fixes for KDE-based guests
    Drag and drop: added transferring plain text to Windows guests
    Drag and drop: fixed transferring large files from host to Linux/Unix guests
    Guest Control: several fixes
    Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan fixes
    Additions/Linux: added -s parameter to mount.vboxsf to be sloppy with invalid parameters (see here)

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This is a major update. The following major new features were added:

Paravirtualization support for Windows and Linux guests to improve time-keeping accuracy and performance (see the manual for more information)
Make more instruction set extensions available to the guest when running with hardware-assisted virtualization and nested paging. Among others this includes: SSE 4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX-2, AES-NI, POPCNT, RDRAND and RDSEED
xHCI Controller to support USB 3 devices (see the manual for more information)
Drag and drop support (bidirectional) for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
Disk image encryption (see the manual for more information)
VMs can now be started in separate mode. The VM process is started headless while the frontend runs as a separate process which can be terminated without stopping the VM.
GUI: VM guest-content scaling support (including 3D acceleration)
GUI: New User Interface settings page for customizing status-bar, menu-bar and guest-content scaling
GUI: New Encryption settings tab for customizing encryption options for disk images
GUI: HiDPI support including application icons and optional unscaled HiDPI output on Mac OS X (including 3D acceleration)
GUI: Hotplugging support for SATA disks
New, modular audio architecture for providing a better abstraction of the host audio backends
Support for the NDIS6 networking framework on Windows (default on Vista and later)

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

VMM: improved timing on Solaris hosts with older VT-x hosts without preemption timers
VMM: further improvements for TSC frequency measurements and guest timekeeping
VMM: debug facility now includes the guest CPU's FPU/SSE/extended state in the core dump
VMM: fixed a hang under rare conditions on 32-bit hosts
VMM: several fixes
GUI: improved HID LEDs synchronization for Mac and Windows hosts. The physical LEDs state now restored together with the VM state.
GUI: take the guest screen aspect ratio into account for the preview window
GUI: provide direct access to storage media in the VM selector
GUI: allow to save the VM state from the selector even if the VM is already paused
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
VBoxManage: now supports renaming storage controllers and USB controllers
Guest Control: major overhaul, for example fixing wrong parameter quoting (bug #13157)
USB: added USB traffic capturing (see the manual for more information)
Made resizing X11 guests work more reliably
API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child snapshots (only relevant for VMs without snapshottable hard disks, their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM config corruption
API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense
API: fix information for some automatically generated events (only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice (bug #12379)
API: fix crashes in Java API clients using the XPCOM binding, happened with output parameters only (bug #11232)
API: a number of settings (e.g. network settings) can now also be changed when the VM is in saved state
API: fixed incorrect resuming of VMs on host-resume unless they were previously paused due to a host-suspend
API: don't lose the saved state and "current state changed" flag during cloning of a VM
API: OS type description consistency fix (bug #14162)
VBoxSVC: don't keep the support driver permanently open
Main/Properties: properly drop transient guest properties when the VM is powered off
VRDP: fixed a couple of races which may cause a crash during VM poweroff
ExtPack: don't fail if the TMP directory contains non-latin1 characters (bug #14159)
3D: fix potential race in which might cause a crash on VM termination
3D: fixed a possible memory leak in the host service
Serial: new TCP/IP backend (see the manual for more information)
Storage: added USB mass storage device class (see the manual for more information)
Storage: added vbox-img standalone tool for direct manipulation of virtual hard disk images without VBoxManage
Storage: fixed crash as a result of I/O errors in certain conditions (bug #13105)
NAT: fixed several potential crashes
NAT: don't forcibly reset/drop all connections when the link goes down
Netsniffer: properly handle changing of the trace file name at VM runtime
Audio: fixed audio output and input when changing the default audio device more than once on OS X
Audio: fixed audio input on OS X under certain circumstances
ICH9: fixed the interrupt disable logic for MSI interrupts; should fix old Linux guests with AHCI
USB: improve playback with USB sound devices attached to the emulated OHCI controller
Audio: provide Linux guests a different AC97 audio codec type so Linux ALSA does not mis-detect the link speed (default for new VMs)
BIOS: fix for booting from SCSI CD/DVD media
BIOS: fix for reads partially beyond end of disk (bug #14021)
VRDP: fixed listening for IPv6 on some systems (bug #14038)
rdesktop-vrdp: upgraded to version 1.8.3
Linux hosts: fixed a bug which made the netfilter driver ignore certain events (bug #12264)
Mac OS X hosts: El Capitan fixes
Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug which might trigger a host kernel panic if a VM is started and another hypervisor is active
Solaris hosts: Solaris 12 installer fix
Guest Additions: added a heartbeat service (see the manual for more information)
Linux hosts / guests: support for Linux distributions using systemd without sysv emulation (e.g. ArchLinux)
Windows Additions/WDDM: improved video memory utilization and allow more/bigger guest screens with large resolutions (including HiDPI)
Linux Additions: added -s parameter to mount.vboxsf to be sloppy with invalid parameters
X11 Additions: fixed wrong DPI value (bug #14151)
Mac OS X guests: limit the CPU family for legacy guests
Solaris Additions: added quiesce support to co-operate with Solaris' fast-reboot feature

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This is a maintenance release
The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: added support for guest crash report MSRs with Hyper-V paravirtualization
VMM: fixed an issue causing artifically high load averages on Linux hosts
VMM: fixed a kernel panic with thread-context hooks caused by incompatible changes made to Linux 4.2 kernels
VMM: fixed a saved state issue with VT-x/AMD-V disabled (5.0 regression; bug #14304)
VMM: fixed VERR_SUPDRV_TSC_DELTA_MEASUREMENT_FAILED Guru Meditations on certain AMD CPUs (5.0 regression; bug #14370)
VMM: fixed a crash while creating a guest core dumps via the VM debug facility (5.0 regression)
VMM: This release has AVX2 passthrough disabled on every host and AVX passthrough disabled for 64-bit VMs on 32-bit hosts. This will be properly fixed in a future 5.0.x maintenance release (see e.g. bug #14262).
GUI: fixed rare hang and crash on VM shutdown/poweroff
GUI: X11: fixed few crashes caused by the Qt alien widgets feature
GUI: X11: fixed various mini-toolbar geometry quirks like positioning, z-order, transiency issues on certain window managers (bug #14257)
GUI: X11: fixed mini-toolbar minimize button issue under certain window managers (bug #14284)
GUI: VM menu actions availability should now be properly updated on full-screen/seamless/scaled mode switches
GUI: disk encryption password validation should be performed when user confirmed the password, not after each entered symbol
GUI: do not change the VM/group selection in the VM Manager to the newly created VM if it was created by another client (e.g. VBoxManage)
GUI: Mac OS X: do not treat 'almost maximized' VM windows as 'maximized', watch for the strict window geometry instead
GUI: improve the quality in scaled mode under some circumstances (5.0 regression; bug #14303)
VBoxManage: do not deny changing the network adapter type at VM runtime (5.0 regression; bug #14308)
VRDP: allow Windows 10 RDP clients (bug #14216)
Audio: fix a possible crash on VM process termination (5.0 regression)
Storage: improved raw disk access on OS X by unmounting any accessed volume before first use and prevent any mount attempt by the host (bug #14219)
3D: basic support for saving/restoring display lists
Drag and drop: fixed guest to host transfers on OS X hosts
Drag and drop: fixed memory leak on Windows guests
Shared Folders: fixed a problem with accessing CIFS shares (bug #14252)
Shared Folders: improved path conversion between hosts and guests with different path separators (bug #14153)
API: skip resetting of immutable media when the VM in saved state is started (bug #13957)
API: fixed method for setting medium IDs which used zero (invalid) UUIDs instead random (valid) UUIDs if no UUIDs were passed (bug #14350)
API: for Windows host fix detection of API client crashes which have a session open
OVF: properly export all VBox features including the setting for paravirtualization (bug #14390)
Windows hosts: fixed crash when opening Windows dialogs from the VM process on Windows 10 (bug #14351)
Windows hosts: fixed host-only adapter creation issues on Windows 10 (bug #14040)
Windows hosts: fixed audio on Windows 10 (bug #14432)
Windows Additions: fixed a potential crash in the WDDM driver with Windows 10 (bug #14190)
X11 Additions: various seamless mode fixes, including invisible windows under LXDE.

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VMM: fixed an issue with Windows 10 guest kernel debugging over the network for Hyper-V paravirtualized VMs
VMM: fixed a bug which prevented reading the saved state of the 'PATM' unit from VirtualBox 4.3.x
GUI: changed default OS type for Windows from Windows XP to Windows 7
GUI: added another pre-defined guest screen resolution
GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the location of the root certificates
GUI: fixed issues with synchronization of Caps lock / Num lock / Scroll lock on Windows hosts
GUI: don't crash during VM shutdown if 2D video acceleration and 3D support are enabled (Mac OS X hosts only)
GUI: several seamless fixes for certain X11 window managers, also when used in multi-screen setups
GUI: Log window size, position and cursor-position fixes
Audio: fixed playing leftover/deprecated audio samples
Audio: fixed playing audio after suspending the host (5.0 regression; Linux hosts using the ALSA backend)
Audio: fixed playing short audio samples which were chopped off formerly
Audio: fixed distortions on OS X when the sample rate of the guest stream and host device don't match
Storage: fixed raw disk access and flat VMDK image access which would be always opened readonly (5.0.2 regression)
Storage: fixed initial encryption of VDI images after they were compacted
VGA: fix for certain graphics modes
NAT: don't freeze while the VM is paused if the network attachment mode is changed from/to NAT with activated port forwarding
OVF: fixed duplicate USB controller entries in exported OVA/OVF
Shared Folders: fixed a path separator issue
Drag and drop: fixed crashes on OS X hosts when doing host-to-guest transfers
VBoxManage: another attempt to not deny changing the network adapter type at VM runtime (5.0 regression)
VBoxManage: fixed broken guestcontrol list command (5.0 regression)
VBoxManage: fixed broken Guest Control stdout/stderr output (5.0 regression)
Mac OS X hosts: fixed remaining problems with activated SMAP
Mac OS X hosts: fixed broken 3D support (5.0.2 regression)
Linux hosts: Linux 4.2 fix
Linux hosts: don't crash on older Linux distributions if the DBus service isn't running
Windows hosts: fixed the VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE error message
Windows hosts: fix for Windows 10 build 10525 and later
Windows hosts: fixed network adapter enumeration on Windows 10
Windows hosts: prevent intermittent host network disconnects during VM start/shutdown with bridged networking
Windows Additions: fixed the call to the memory allocation function
Linux Additions: be more forgiving if the compilation of the vboxvideo module fails
X11 Additions: fixed a number of small issues with dynamic resizing and full-screen and seamless modes.

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GUI: the update check now uses the HTTP system proxy settings by default
GUI: About dialog improvements. Copyable version text, do not close dialog on mouse-clicks and focus losing, explicit close button at the bottom of dialog and disabled close button fix on OS X. (bugs #9912, #12749)
GUI: fixed bug when re-assigning shortcuts (bug #14565)
GUI: fixed default focus button in message-box dialogs (bug #14486)
GUI: fixed settings dialog which is opened if the network settings need to be changed at VM startup (5.0.0 regression; bug #14601)
GUI: fixed crash during VM start if an early error message needs to be shown, for example Linux kernel modules not present (bug #14646)
Bridged Networking: fixed handling of guest DHCP requests without UDP checksum when bridging to a wireless interface (bug #14615)
Audio: latency fixes (Windows hosts only; bug #4088)
Guest Control: correctly set USERNAME and USERPROFILE environment variables (Windows guests only)
Guest Control: several fixes
API: properly restore NAT port forwarding rules when reverting to a snapshot
Parallel ports: Several fixes allowing to enable two parallel ports for a VM
VBoxManage: fixed wrong output of debugvm show command
VBoxManage: fixed hang when specifying logging groups with debugvm log starting with h, for example hex
Windows hosts: renamed VBoxStartup.log to VBoxHardening.log and provide this log file in the GUI log viewer
Windows hosts: fixed a small memory leak in the Windows host interface driver (VBoxNetAdp) which caused a BSOD if the driver verifier is enabled (bug #14562)
Windows hosts: fixed a failure to start VMs on hosts where dsound.dll is not available (bug #14574)
Windows hosts: another fix for VERR_LDR_MISMATCH_NATIVE errors (bug #14579)
Windows hosts: fixed host-to-guest communication with bridged networking (bugs #14326, #14457)
Windows hosts: fixed broken data receiving from the serial device with the named pipe backend if Kaspersky AV is installed
Windows Additions: fixed shutting down VBoxTray when running with older VirtualBox host versions
Windows Additions: fixed video playback with VLC and Windows Media Player when the WDDM driver is used and 3D is not used
Windows Additions: prevent a possible VLC crash when the WDDM driver is used and 3D is enabled by implementing YV12 surfaces

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