VirtualBox 4.3.14 plus updates for older branches released

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VirtualBox 4.3.14 plus updates for older branches released

Post by frank »

I would like to thank all testers of 4.3.14 RC1. We've got helpful feedback and fixed several issues.

VirtualBox 4.3.14 is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added since VirtualBox 4.3.12:
  • 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 SMP guests
  • VMM: properly wake up a halted VCPU on NMI/SMI
  • 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)
  • GUI: fixed update check which was broken due to changing the location of the root certificates (bug #13096)
  • VBoxManage: fixed typo in showvminfo --machinereadable (bug #13176)
  • NAT: fixed inbound half-close (bug #13116)
  • NAT: fixed slow upload speed under certain conditions (bug #10034)
  • NAT Network: fixed potential loss of inbound TCP data
  • NAT Network: fixed potential infinite stalls of TCP connections over IPv6
  • NAT Network: fixed resets of TCP connections on Windows hosts
  • 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
  • Keyboard: active modifier keys during suspend were stuck after resuming the host
  • 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)
  • ExtPack: cleanup of dangling uninstallation directories
  • 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)
  • Linux Additions: Linux 3.16 fixes (bug #13123)
  • 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
  • Windows host installer: fixed the need for rebooting Windows after installation or upgrade, extended logging for NetFlt/NetAdp (un)installation
These are also maintenance releases of stable branches which fix bugs and improve stability. See the respective changelogs for 4.2, 4.1, 4.0 and 3.2 to see a complete list of the changes.
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