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VirtualBox 6.1.36 (released July 19 2022)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
- VMM: Fixed possible Linux guest kernel crash when configuring Speculative Store Bypass for a single vCPU VM
- GUI: In the storage page of the virtual machine settings dialog, fixed a bug which disrupted mouse interaction with the native file selector on KDE
- NAT: Prevent issue when host resolver incorrectly returned NXDOMAIN for unsupported queries (bug #20977)
- Audio: General improvements in saved state area
- Recording: Various fixes for settings handling
- VGA: Performance improvements for screen updates when VBE banking is used
- USB: Fixed rare crashes when detaching a USB device
- ATA: Fixed NT4 guests taking a minute to eject CDs
- vboximg-mount: Fixed broken write support (bug #20896)
- SDK: Fixed Python bindings incorrectly trying to convert arbitrary byte data into unicode objects with Python 3, causing exceptions (bug #19740)
- API: Fixed an issue when virtual USB mass storage devices or virtual USB DVD drives are added while the VM is not running are by default not marked as hot-pluggable
- API: Initial support for Python 3.10
- API: Solaris OS types cleanup
- Windows host: Fixed regression in 6.1.32 leading to guest hangs when Hyper-V is used (bug #20787)
- Windows host: Fixed possible issues with saving and restoring VM state when using Hyper-V/NEM mode
- Linux and Solaris hosts: Allow to mount shared folder if it is represented as a symlink on a host side (bug #17491)
- Linux Host and Guest drivers: Introduced initial support for kernels 5.18, 5.19 and RHEL 9.1 (bugs #20914, #20941)
- Linux Host and Guest drivers: Better support for kernels built with clang compiler (bugs #20425 and #20998)
- Solaris Guest Additions: General improvements in installer area
- Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed guest screen resize in VMSVGA graphics configuration
- Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed multi-screen handling in VBoxVGA and VBoxSVGA graphics configuration
- Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Added support for setting primary screen via VBoxManage
- Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed X11 resources leak when resizing guest screens
- Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed file descriptor leak when starting a process using guest control (bug #20902)
- Linux and Solaris Guest Additions: Fixed guest control executing processes as root
- Linux Guest Additions: Improved guests booting time by preventing kernel modules from being rebuilt when it is not necessary (bug #20502)
- Windows Guest Additions: Fixed VBoxTray crash on startup in NT4 guests on rare circumstances
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