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This is a maintenance release of the 3.2.x branch. We encourage our users to switch to VirtualBox 4.1.8 but there might be reasons to stay with this older branch. These users will appreciate this update as some fixes of the 4.1.x branch were backported.

• VMM: fixed crash under certain circumstances (Linux hosts only, non VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #7819)
• VMM: fixed incorrect handling of ballooned pages
• VMM: fixed 64bit guests on AMD Fusion CPUs (bug #8824)
• VMM: fixed handling of the sysenter / sysexit machine instructions in 64-bit guests on Intel hosts
• VMM: fixed recompiler crashes under certain conditions (bugs #8255, #8319 and further)
• VMM: fixed slow Linux guests with raw mode and recent guest kernels (bug #8726)
• GUI: fixed black fullscreen minitoolbar on KDE4 hosts (Linux hosts only; bug #5449)
• GUI: when taking a snapshot from the VM selector, don't do a live snapshot
• GUI: fixed disappearing settings widgets on KDE hosts (bug #6809)
• VBoxManage: host-only interface creation and removal are now supported for all platforms except Solaris (bug #7741)
• VBoxManage: fixed segmentation fault when removing non-existent host-only interface
• VBoxManage: fixed list hostdvds / hostfloppies
• VBoxManage: fixed storageattach for host DVD drives and host floppy drives
• Main: fixed problems with snapshots and non-ASCII characters in machine paths (bug #8024)
• Main: fixed a crash at VM shutdown (bug #6443)
• Main: fixed possible deadlock between hard disk enumeration and the resetting of immutable disks (bug #9549)
• Metrics: fixed a memory leak in metrics querying
• Settings: fixed issue that changing a snapshot name or description was not saved to machine XML
• Floppy: make it possible to unmount a host floppy disk (bug #6651)
• ACPI: force the ACPI timer to return monotonic values for improve behavior with SMP Linux guests (bug #8511 and others)
• Audio: fixed memory corruption during playback under rare circumstances
• Serial: attempt to prevent lost characters during transmission (bug #1548)
• Mouse support: fixed an off-by-one pointer position error affecting Windows guests (bugs #7566, #9321)
• Storage: fixed access to CD/DVD images beyond 4GB when using the SATA controller (bug #8592)
• SATA: fixed guest disk corruption under rare circumstances (bug #8826)
• ATA/SATA: fixed automounting of virtual CD/DVD mediums with recent Linux distributions by correctly reporting the current profile as none if no medium is present
• VHD: fixed reads crossing block boundaries (bug #8532)
• VMDK: fixed progress indicator when creating split VMDK images
• E1000: fixed PXE boot issues with WDS; bug #6330
• E1000: fixed rare guest crashes in Linux SMP guests (bug #8755)
• Host-Only Networking: fixed connectivity issue after resuming the host from sleep (bug #3625)
• Host-Only & Bridged & Internal Networking: fix for processing promiscuous mode requests by VMs, defaulting to switch behavior
• Networking: fixed the problem with segmentation offloading when several VMs were transmitting at once
• VRDP: fixed a few rare screen corruptions
• VRDP: fixed screen freeze
• VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)
• Webservice: use own log file, with log rotation to limit size
• rdesktop-vrdp: updated to version 1.7.0
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed VBoxSVC crash when listing host interfaces without default gateway (64-bit hosts only)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with recent Mac OS X versions in 64-bit mode (bug #8474)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed incompatibility with hosts with more than 16 cores (bug #8389)
• Mac OS X hosts: Lion fixes
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when bridged to wireless interface (bug #9648)
• Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.38-rc1 compile fixes
• Linux hosts: support recent Linux kernels with CONFIG_DEBUG_SET_MODULE_RONX set
• Linux hosts: fixed VT-x detection on Linux 3.0 hosts (bug #9071)
• Linux hosts / Linux guests: workaround for a bug in GLIBC older than version 1.11 leading to crashes under certain conditions (signed/unsigned problem with memchr on 64-bit machines)
• Solaris hosts: fixed preemption issue with Solaris 11 hosts (builds 166 and above)
• Linux Additions: re-enabled the compilation of the OpenGL guest kernel module if DKMS is not installed (3.2.10 regression)
• Linux Additions: RHEL6.1/OL6.1 compile fix
• Linux Additions: fixed llseek for Linux kernels 2.6.37 and above
• Linux Additions: suppress an incorrect error message and allow a shared folder to be mounted in multiple places (bug #9627)
• Linux Additions: fixes for Linux 3.2
• X11 Additions: fixed a crash on X server restart (bug #8231)
• X11 Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.10
• Solaris Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.8 / 1.9 / 1.10
• Solaris Additions: fixed memory leaks and panics while mounting (from console) and unmounting shared folders.
• Windows Additions: automatic logon on Windows Vista/Windows 7 now supports unlocking previously locked workstations
• Windows Additions: fixed handling of Security Attention Sequence (SAS) with VBoxGINA
• Windows Additions: added auto logon support for locked workstations on legacy Windows versions
• Windows Additions: added support for handling/ignoring remote (desktop) sessions for automatic logon modules
• Windows Additions: fixed file truncation on a shared folder with some applications (bugs #9276, #9315)
• Windows Additions: fixed memory leak in VBoxVideo