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- Version bump to VirtualBox 7.0.18 (released May 03 2024 by Oracle))
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Networking: Fixed an issue which caused host system crash when VM was using bridged or host-only network adapter (bug #22045)
Linux Guest Additions: Added more fixes to prevent UBSAN warnings (bug #21877) Fixes boo#1211941
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when time stamps were displayed incorrectly within mounted shared folder (bug #22047)
Permanent fix for boo#1220524. File fix_shared_folder_time.patch is deleted.
Files fixes_for_python.patch and handle_gsoap_208103.patch are deleted.
VirtualBox 7.0.16 (released April 16 2024)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fixed a guru meditation executing nested-guests using the KVM hypervisor in the guest on Intel hosts (bug #21805)
VMM: Fixed Linux VM crash on some recent AMD models
USB: Fixed issue when EHCI controller was mishandling short packets (bug #20726)
Audio: Introduced general improvements
VBoxManage and vboximg-mount: Updated usage information and documentation (bugs #21895, #21992 and #21993)
Guest Control: Fixed starting Windows guest processes in the correct Windows session (7.0 regression)
Linux Host: Fixed issue when VBox.sh was deleting wrong VBoxSVC IPC socket when VM was started using sudo (bug #20928)
Linux Host: Fixed kernel modules build failure when using GCC 13.2
Linux Host and Guest: Added fixes related to UBSAN warnings discovered on recent Linux distributions (bug #21877)
Linux Host and Guest: Added possibility to prevent kernel module from automatic loading during system boot by adding mod_name.disabled=1 into kernel command line
Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for kernel 6.9 (bug #22033). File kernel-6.9.patch is deleted.
Linux Host and Guest: Fixed mk_pte warning introduced in kernel 6.6 (bug #21898)
Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.8. File kernel-6.8.patch is deleted.
Windows Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in graphics area