VirtualBox 7.0.16 released

[galitsyn]

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

• VMM: Fixed a guru meditation executing nested-guests using the KVM hypervisor in the guest on Intel hosts (bug #21805)
• VMM: Fixed Linux VM crash on some recent AMD models
• USB: Fixed issue when EHCI controller was mishandling short packets (bug #20726)
• Audio: Introduced general improvements
• VBoxManage and vboximg-mount: Updated usage information and documentation (bugs #21895, #21992 and #21993)
• Guest Control: Fixed starting Windows guest processes in the correct Windows session (7.0 regression)
• Linux Host: Fixed issue when VBox.sh was deleting wrong VBoxSVC IPC socket when VM was started using sudo (bug #20928)
• Linux Host: Fixed kernel modules build failure when using GCC 13.2
• macOS Host: Fixed issue when App Nap was affecting VM performance (bug #18678)
• Linux Host and Guest: Added fixes related to UBSAN warnings discovered on recent Linux distributions (bug #21877)
• Linux Host and Guest: Added possibility to prevent kernel module from automatic loading during system boot by adding mod_name.disabled=1 into kernel command line
• Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for kernel 6.9 (bug #22033)
• Linux Host and Guest: Fixed mk_pte warning introduced in kernel 6.6 (bug #21898)
• Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.8
• Windows Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in graphics area

Please discuss this release here.

[AndyCot]

From https://www.virtualbox.org/:

New April 16th, 2024
VirtualBox 7.0.16 released!
ATTENTION: PLEASE REFRAIN FROM UPGRADING TO 7.0.16 FOR NOW. THIS RELEASE HAS AN ISSUE WHICH MIGHT CAUSE HOST OS CRASH WHEN VM IS CONFIGURED TO USE BRIDGED OR HOST-ONLY NETWORKING. WE WILL SEND AN ANNOUNCEMENT TO MAILING LISTS WHEN FIX WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD.
Oracle today released a 7.0 maintenance release which improves stability and fixes regressions. See the Changelog for details.