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This is a maintenance release of the 4.0.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. Furthermore, VirtualBox 4.0.16 is the basis of VDI 3.3.2.

The following items were fixed and/or added since VirtualBox 4.0.14:

• VRDP: fixed screen corruption
• VRDP: fixed screen freeze
• ATA: fixed a possible crash during ATAPI passthrough with certain guests
• NAT: the interface stopped working after a lot of failed ICMP requests (bug #9371)
• Metrics: fixed potential problem with invalid access in guest metrics collection upon VM destruction
• Main: fixed incorrect framebuffer information after leaving the fullscreen mode with X11 guests, this lead to a scrambled preview window in the GUI for example
• VBoxSVC: fixed crash under rare circumstances (e.g. client crash)
• VMDK/VHD: fixed a possible corruption with host cache disabled when using snapshots under rare circumstances (bug #9749)
• OVF/OVA: fixed broken disk images on import under rare circumstances
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed the problem with duplicate packets when bridged to wireless interface (bug #9648)
• Windows Additions: implemented faster detection of logged-in guest users and stale sessions
• Linux guests: fixes for Linux 3.2