This version is a maintenance release. It adds an experimental Intel Gigabit Ethernet device emulation and read-only shared folders.
GUI: fixed several error messages
GUI: fixed registration dialog crashes once and for all
GUI: really ask before resetting the VM
GUI: release mouse and keyboard before the host activates the screensaver
GUI: fixed issue with license display on big screens
GUI: added setting for network name for internal networks
GUI: added setting for network device type
GUI: keyboard fixes
GUI: seamless mode and fullscreen mode fixes
GUI: fixed soaked hostkey keyup event under certain conditions
GUI: more informative message dialog buttons
GUI: VM selector context menu
VBoxSDL: added -termacpi switch
VBoxSDL: fixed automatic adaption of the guest screen resolution to the size of the VM window
VMM: under heavy guest activity, for example when copying files to/from a shared folder, the VM could crash with an assertion
VMM: added an option to select PIIX4 (improves compatibility with Windows guests created by VMware)
VMM: fixed a bug which could lead to memory corruption under rare circumstances
VMM: improved performance of Solaris guests
VRDP: fixed a 1.5.4 regression: VRDP client and server were out-of-sync if the VM was started using the GUI
VRDP: proper error handling if the VRDP library could not be loaded
VRDP: fixed compilation of the Linux rdesktop client on newer Linux kernels
VRDP: install rdesktop-vrdp on Linux hosts
VBoxManage: fixed crash during clonevdi
VBoxManage: added 'list runningvms' command
VBoxManage: improved the compatibility when reading the partition table of a raw disk
Shared Folders: added support for read-only shared folders
Shared Clipboard: several fixes
Network: don't crash if the device is activated but not attached
Network: experimental support for Intel Gigabit Ethernet (E1000) device emulation
iSCSI: better check for misconfigured targets
iSCSI: allow to directly attach to internal networks with integrated mini IP stack
PulseAudio: don't hang during VM initialization if no sound server is available
VDI: fixed sized virtual disk images are now completely written during creation to workaround buggy sparse file handling on some OS (e.g. Vista)
VDI/VMDK: prevent indexing of .vdi and .vmdk files on Windows hosts
ACPI: added sleep button event
Serial: proper handling of inaccessible host devices
Windows installer: allow smooth upgrade without deinstallation
Linux installer: fixed Slackware detection regression
Linux installer: updated VBoxTunctl allowing to assign a tap device to a group on Linux kernels > 2.6.23
Windows Additions: several fixes, in particular for Windows NT4
Windows Additions: made them uninstallable
Linux Additions: fixed installer for Kubuntu 8.04
Linux Additions: add default video mode for handling video mode hints from the host
Linux host: compatibility fixes with Linux > 2.6.24