15.40. Version 4.3.18 (2014-10-10)

Oracle VM VirtualBox

15.40. Version 4.3.18 (2014-10-10)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

  • VMM: fixed a potential misbehavior after restoring the A20 state from a saved state

  • GUI: fixed full-screen mode mini-toolbar related regressions for different platforms and window managers (bug #13369)

  • GUI: X11: fixed full-screen mode Unity panels quirk caused by mini-toolbar code changes in last release (bug #13365)

  • GUI: X11: added possibility to use legacy full-screen mode as the new one can cause multi-screen issues under Unity, see Section 9.20.13, “Requesting legacy full-screen mode” (bug #13365)

  • GUI: Mac OS X: fixed full-screen mode artifact causing black screen when 3D acceleration was enabled on 10.10 Yosemite hosts (bug #13448)

  • GUI: Mac OS X: fixed regression in user-space swiping from/to VBox in full-screen mode

  • GUI: Mac OS X: fixed issue with switching to VBox in full-screen mode through Alt+Tab and Mission Control

  • Storage: fixed data corruption when resizing huge VHD images under certain circumstances (bug #11960)

  • Storage: fixed a rare hang during startup when the BIOS enumerates the storage devices attached to the SATA controller

  • Storage: follow the spec with AHCI interrupt acknowledge (bug #13474)

  • Storage: fixed broken iSCSI authentication (4.3.14 regression; bugs #13386, #13435)

  • NAT Network: properly parse port forwarding rules to allow UDP rules

  • USB: fixed a crash on Linux hosts with older Linux kernels (bug #13400) and several other fixes

  • ACPI: fixed ACPI timer anomalies (bug #12076)

  • Guest Control: fixed a memory leak (bug #13434)

  • Main: when removing a VM, do also remove the VBoxStartup.log file which might exist on Windows hosts (bug #13478)

  • Windows hosts: fixed more startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software; better error reporting (4.3.14 regression; bug #13187)

  • Windows hosts: propagate the process startup information to the child process (4.3.14 regression; bug #13243)

  • Mac OS X hosts: don't force using the discrete GPU (bug #11111)

  • Windows Additions: some Windows 10 tweaks

  • X11 guests: fix a bug handling video driver display properties which prevented GNOME Shell on Fedora 21 from starting

  • Linux hosts / guests: fixed a few remaining warnings in the kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)