This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: fixed excessive logging (bug #1901)
VMM: AMD-V stability fixes (bug #1685)
GUI: added support for Ctrl+Caps reversed keyboards (bug #1891)
SATA: fixed BSODs of Windows guests on a SATA disk (bug #1941)
SATA: fixed hard disk detection on Solaris 10 U5 (bug #1789)
VBoxHeadless: don't start the clipboard service (bug #1743)
VBoxHeadless: added -vrdp parameter which allows to start the VM session without VRDP (bug #1960)
VBoxManage: fixes to creating raw disk/partition VMDK files, now accepts removable media on Windows (bug #1869)
VRDP: fixed communication with MS Remote Desktop Connection on Mac OS X (bug #1337)
VRDP: clipboard fixes (bug #1410)
VRDP: fixed crash during PAM authentication (bug #1953)
Shared Folders: fixed a regression introduced in version 1.6.2: the shared folders service was sometimes not properly installed (Windows guests only, bug #1915)
Shared Folders: don't deny to load a VM if a shared folder is not accessible (bug #822)
BIOS: allow to specify empty DMI strings (bug #1957)
OSE archive: added missing Makefiles (bug #1912)
Linux hosts: workaround for buggy gcc-4.3 compilers (e.g. openSUSE 11)
Linux hosts: one more fix for compiling the kernel modules on Linux 2.6.27 (bug #1962)
Mac OS X hosts: shared folders unicode fix
Solaris hosts: fixed link issue (bug #1840)
Windows Additions: allow to downgrade the package
Windows Additions: fixed corrupted installer icon on Windows 2000 (bug #1486)
Windows Additions: fixed bug when creating intermediate directories (bug #1870)
Windows Additions: implemented
/xres=
,
/yres=
and
/depth=
switches for the
installer (bug #1990)
Linux Additions: properly unregister the misc device when unloading the kernel module
Linux Additions: fixed startup order for recent Linux distributions again (e.g. openSUSE 11)
Linux Additions: attempt to fix the autostart issue of VBoxClient with Mandriva guests (bug #1699)
Linux Additions: fixed detection of patched Linux 2.6.18 kernels of RHEL5 / FC6 / CentOS 5.2 (bugs #1899, #1973)
Linux Additions: added new mount flags
dmode
,
fmode
,
umask
,
dmask
and
fmask
allowing to override the file mode (bug #1776)
Documentation: added a note that jumbo frames don't work (bug #1877)
Documentation: document special host interface names on openSUSE11 (bug #1892)