This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
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User interface: various improvements for high resolution screens
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User interface: added functionality to duplicate optical and floppy images
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User interface: various improvements for the virtual media manager
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VMM: fixed emulation so that Plan 9 guests can start once more (5.1.0 regression)
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Storage: fixed regression breaking iSCSI (bug #17196)
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Audio: added HDA support for more exotic guests (e.g. Haiku)
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Serial: fixed hanging I/O when using named pipes on Windows (5.2.0 regression; bug #17227)
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Serial: fixed broken communication with certain devices on Linux hosts
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USB/OHCI: improved behavior so that the controller state after a VM reset is closer to the initial state after VM start
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EFI: fixed HFS+ driver which in rare cases failed to access most files on a volume
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Shared clipboard: fixed hang with OS X host and Linux guest (bug #15782)
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Linux hosts: fixed kernel module compilation and start failures with Linux kernel 4.14 (bug #17267)
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X11 hosts: better handle WM_CLASS setting (bug #12534)
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Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14 (bug #12534)
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Linux guests: fixed kernel module compilation and other problems with Linux kernel 4.14
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Linux guests: fixed various 5.2.0 regressions (bug #17163)
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Bridged networking: fixed duplicate EtherType in VLAN/priority tags on Linux (5.2.0 regression; bug #17277)