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So what's with a new 4.2 release that has just appeared? I cant find any release notes for it? What does it solve?

Stuart

broadstairs wrote:So what's with a new 4.2 release that has just appeared? I cant find any release notes for it? What does it solve?

From the User Manual, section 15.1:

• GUI: always report recommended resolutions for all monitors (not always done since 4.2.12)
• GUI: make sure the assigned license and description are attached to the exported appliance
• GUI: the OS X hot corners were not accessible while a VirtualBox VM is running (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #4139)
• NAT: don’t run into an infinite loop in case the host cannot access any DNS server (4.3.0 regression; bug #12300)
• NAT: don’t re-connect the cable if the DNS information changes and the cable was disconnected before (4.3.0 regression; bug #12225)
• Main: properly save the passthrough flag for DVD drives without an attached medium
• Keyboard: fixed a VM crash if a VM was resumed from a saved state where at least one key was pressed (bug #11289)
• 2D Video acceleration: fix crashes on presentation mode switches (bug #9194)
• Storage: fixed errors with snapshots when using QCOW or QED disk images (bug #12144)
• Storage: fix for newer Linux kernels not detecting a hard disk as SSD when using the IDE or SATA controller (bug #12025)
• Storage: fixed detection of CD/DVD media when switching from an empty to a host drive with passthrough enabled
• Snapshots: fixed a bug which could result in lost medium attachments (4.2.18 regression, bug #11750)
• Shared Clipboard: fixed potential SEGFAULT when working with UTF8 and UTF16 content (Mac OS X hosts only)
• OVF: fixed import logic for OVF appliances containing multiple VMs
• Extpack Installer: make it work if the file is located in a folder with special characters
• SDK: extended the functionality coverage for the C bindings
• API: block the removal of the current snapshot if it has child snapshots (only relevant for
• VMs without snapshottable hard disks, their presence always prevented removal), which resulted in VM config corruption
• API: mark VM configs with snapshots but without current snapshot as inaccessible, as this combination is nonsense
• API: fixed information for some automatically generated events (only with XPCOM, Windows host was not affected), which caused errors when getting some of the attributes over the webservice (bug #12379)
• Mac OS X hosts: support for Mac OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
• Mac OS X hosts: properly sign the kernel extensions for Mavericks hosts (bug #12256)
• Mac OS X hosts: use a launchd script instead of the deprecated StartupItem mechanism (bug #8940)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed a bug where the VirtualBox dock icon was not properly removed from the dock after a VM terminated preventing Mavericks hosts from shutting (bug #12241)
• Linux Additions: Linux 3.13 compile fix (bug #12358)
• Linux Additions: Linux 3.12 compile fix (bug #12083)
• Linux Additions: Linux 3.11 fix for shared folders (bugs #11946, #12128)
• Linux Additions: compile fix for SLES11 SP3
• Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing (bug #12166)
• Linux Additions: build the vboxvideo kernel module correctly on OL/RHEL 6.1 guests (bug #11996)
• Linux Additions: make 3D work on Slackware 14.1 (bug #12320 comments 3 and 4)
• Windows Additions: fixed memory leak caused by WTSQuerySessionInformation() on Windows 2000 guests (bug #12072)
• Windows Additions: multimonitor resize fixes
• X11 Additions/3D: fix freezes starting 3D desktop (bug #11503, thank you Sam Spilsbury)
• Guest additions/3D: fix an occasional dead-lock (bug #12319)