This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
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VMM: fixed a potential misbehavior after restoring the A20 state from a saved state
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GUI: fixed full-screen mode mini-toolbar related regressions for different platforms and window managers (bug #13369)
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GUI: X11: fixed full-screen mode Unity panels quirk caused by mini-toolbar code changes in last release (bug #13365)
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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)
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GUI: Mac OS X: fixed full-screen mode artifact causing black screen when 3D acceleration was enabled on 10.10 Yosemite hosts (bug #13448)
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GUI: Mac OS X: fixed regression in user-space swiping from/to VBox in full-screen mode
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GUI: Mac OS X: fixed issue with switching to VBox in full-screen mode through Alt+Tab and Mission Control
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Storage: fixed data corruption when resizing huge VHD images under certain circumstances (bug #11960)
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Storage: fixed a rare hang during startup when the BIOS enumerates the storage devices attached to the SATA controller
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Storage: follow the spec with AHCI interrupt acknowledge (bug #13474)
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Storage: fixed broken iSCSI authentication (4.3.14 regression; bugs #13386, #13435)
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NAT Network: properly parse port forwarding rules to allow UDP rules
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USB: fixed a crash on Linux hosts with older Linux kernels (bug #13400) and several other fixes
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ACPI: fixed ACPI timer anomalies (bug #12076)
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Guest Control: fixed a memory leak (bug #13434)
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Main: when removing a VM, do also remove the VBoxStartup.log file which might exist on Windows hosts (bug #13478)
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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)
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Windows hosts: propagate the process startup information to the child process (4.3.14 regression; bug #13243)
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Mac OS X hosts: don't force using the discrete GPU (bug #11111)
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Windows Additions: some Windows 10 tweaks
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X11 guests: fix a bug handling video driver display properties which prevented GNOME Shell on Fedora 21 from starting
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Linux hosts / guests: fixed a few remaining warnings in the kernel log if memory allocation fails (bug #11171)