Note: Guest Additions have to be updated. The installation method has changed.
BIOS: fixed CMOS checksum calculation (to avoid guest warnings)
BIOS: improved APM support (to avoid guest warnings)
IDE: Linux 2.6.14+ and OpenBSD now operate the controller in UDMA mode by default
VMM: fixed hang when rebooting Windows 2000 guests with enabled audio adapter
VMM: fixed random user mode crashes with OpenBSD guests
VMM: increased timing accuracy (PIT, RTC), reduced PIT query overhead
VMM: tamed execution thread to make GUI more responsive (esp. when executing real mode guest code such as bootloaders)
VMM: significant performance enhancements for OpenBSD guests
VMM: several performance enhancements
VMM: improved memory layout on Windows hosts to allow for large amounts of guest RAM
VMM: significantly improved VM execution state saving and restoring (at the expense of state file sizes)
ACPI: fixed Windows bluescreen when assigning more than 512MB RAM to a guest
ACPI: correctly report battery state when multiple batteries are present on the host (Linux hosts)
ACPI: enabled by default for newly created VMs
APIC: added optional I/O APIC
Graphics: fixed distortion when changing guest color depth without changing the resolution
VRDP: added support for remote USB (requires special rdesktop client)
VRDP: added support for the Microsoft RDP client
VRDP: improved audio support
Floppy: controller can be disabled
Floppy: fixed "no disk in drive" reporting
Floppy: fixed writing to floppy images
VBoxManage: restructured USB device filter syntax to make it more intuitive
VBoxManage: added command for setting guest logon credentials
Additions: added installer for Windows 2000/XP/2003 guests
Additions: added custom GINA module which hooks MSGINA and can perform automatic logons using credentials retrieved from the VMM
Documentation: added draft of VirtualBox user manual