[Bug 1382922] Re: [FFe] Sync virtualbox and guest additions 4.3.18-dfsg-1 (multiverse) from Debian unstable (contrib)

Tue Oct 21 15:50:33 UTC 2014

Changelog:

 VirtualBox 4.3.18 (released 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 the manual for more information (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) 

VirtualBox 4.3.16 (released 2014-09-09)

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

    VMM: fixed restoring 32-bit FPU state on 64-bit capable VMs and restoring guest FPU in raw-mode VMs (bug #12646; 4.3 regression)
    GUI: properly restore normal/scale mode guest-screen size after exiting full-screen/seamless mode
    GUI: mini-toolbar should provoke less artifacts/conflicts with 3D guest rendering
    GUI: Mac OS X: Native full-screen multi-screen transition was able to blackout host-screens for nearly minute
    GUI: X11: Modern window managers should now use native full-screen multi-screen mapping API
    GUI: added extradata item for configuring the mouse capture behavior, see the manual for more information (bug #3506)
    Storage: fixed a VBoxSVC crash when querying an iSCSI target with authentication configured (4.3.14 regression)
    Storage: fixed a rare data corruption during reads if another allocating write is running concurrently and accesses the same range
    Storage: fixed a rare crash for certain VHD images from other products
    Storage: fixed a rare release assertion when using the AHCI controller
    Floppy: fixed read errors and guest memory corruption when running under control of QEMM
    3D: added experimental support for rendering on offline GPUs for Mac OS X host
    3D: fixed white window appearing on entering FullScreen mode on OSX host
    3D: fixed video recording support for 3D data regression (bug #13073)
    3D: fixes for MS Office 2013 support
    3D: several fixes
    Bridged Networking: improved IPv6 support when bridging to a wireless interface
    NAT: prevent internal DNS service from stuck in host-resolver mode when host was switched from one network to another one while host was sleeping (Mac OS X hosts)
    NAT: preserve DF (if possible) and TOS when proxying outbound UDP datagrams (bugs #9440, #12309)
    NAT: don't let multicast datagrams out (bug #7338)
    NAT: fixed handling of large incoming UDP datagrams on Windows hosts (bug #12136)
    NAT: fixed handling of the RFC 1533 DHCP PAD option
    NAT Network: fixed inbound half-close on Windows hosts
    NAT Network: preserve IPv4 DF (if possible), TTL, TOS and IPv6 Hop Limit when proxying outbound UDP datagrams
    VRDP: fixed a rare crash when using remote audio input
    USB: fixed several regressions from 4.3.14 (bug #13320)
    Audio: made the HDA sound emulation work with certain OSX guests (e.g. Mountain Lion)
    Windows hosts: fixed startup problems on certain Windows hosts due to conflicts with anti-virus software (4.3.14 regression, bug #13187)
    Windows hosts: fixed 4.3.14 regression whereby AltGr stopped working for some people (bug #13216)
    X11 hosts: made the extra key on Brazilian Thinkpads work (bug #8745)
    X11 hosts: fixed a problem of input focus cycles and immediately released key presses in full screen mode (bug #13238)
    Linux hosts: fixed flooding the kernel log with USB related messages when passing through certain USB devices to a VM (bug #13085)
    Linux guests: stop applications crashing when drm_wait_vblank is called (bug #13265)
    Linux guests: fix a crash in gnome-session (bug #13335)
    X11 guests: do not start VBoxClient over an SSH connection (bug #13107)
    X11 guests: added support for X.Org Server 1.16 (bug #13207)
    X11 guests: fixed a wrong parameter in the video driver which caused problems with full-screen X11 clients (bug #2748)
    VirtualKD: introduced stub/loader device for speeding up Windows kernel debugging, details see  http://virtualkd.sysprogs.org/

-- 
You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu
Sponsors Team, which is subscribed to the bug report.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1382922

Title:
  [FFe] Sync virtualbox and guest additions 4.3.18-dfsg-1 (multiverse)
  from Debian unstable (contrib)

Status in “virtualbox” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “virtualbox-guest-additions-iso” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Please sync virtualbox 4.3.18-dfsg-1 (multiverse) from Debian unstable
  (contrib)

  Changelog entries since current utopic version 4.3.14-dfsg-1build1:

  virtualbox (4.3.18-dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=medium

    [ Gianfranco Costamagna ]
    * Imported Upstream release.
    * Add myself to uploaders.
    * Patch refresh.
    * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.6, no changes needed.
    * Wrap-and-sort control file.
    * Fix lintian warnings:
      - Remove old hardening-wrapper
      - Remove broken symlinks.

    [ Felix Geyer ]
    * Remove myself from uploaders.

   -- Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco at yahoo.it>  Fri, 17 Oct
  2014 11:54:01 +0200

To manage notifications about this bug go to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1382922/+subscriptions