This is a major update. The following major new features were added:
- Virtual machines can be fully encrypted now, including the VM config logs and saved states
(CLI only for now)
- OCI: Cloud virtual machines can be added to Virtual Machine Manager and controlled as
local VMs
- OCI: Cloud networks can now be configured via Network Manager tool same way as it is
done for Host-only and NAT networks
- GUI: Added a new utility similar to "top" or "resource monitor" which lists peformance
statistics (CPU usage, RAM usage, disk I/O rate, etc.) of running guests
- GUI: Reworked the new vm wizard to integrate the unattended guest OS installation and
to have a more streamlined work flow
- GUI: Added a new help viewer widget which enables the user manual to be navigated and
searched
- GUI: Adding new notification center unifying most of running progresses and error report-
ing around the GUI
- GUI: Improved theme support on all platforms. Linux and macOS got native engine while
Windows host got it separately implemented.
- GUI: Large icon update.
- Audio recording: Now using Vorbis as the default audio format for WebM containers. Opus
is no longer being used.
- Audio: Added "default" host driver type to make it possible to move VMs (appliances)
between different platforms without the need of changing the audio driver explicitly. When
the "default" driver is selected, the best audio backend option for a platform will be used.
This is the default for newly created VMs.
- Guest Control: Implemented initial support for automatic updating of Guest Additions for
Linux guests
- Guest Control: Implemented ability to wait for and/or reboot the guest when updating
Guest Additions via VBoxManage
VBoxManage: Added Guest Control "waitrunlevel" sub-command to make it possible to
wait for a guest to reach a certain run level
- Windows hosts: Added experimental support of running autostarted VMs in session 0, to
allow running VMS even when a usser is not being logged in (disabled by default, please
consult the manual)
- macOS hosts: Dropped all kernel extensions. VirtualBox relies fully on userland frame-
works provided by Apple now.
- Linux Guest Additions: Reworked guest screen re-size functionality, added basic integration
with some of guest Desktop Environments
- Devices: Implemented new 3D support based on DirectX 11 (and DXVK on non Windows
hosts)
- Devices: Added virtual IOMMU devices (Intel and AMD variant)
- Devices: Added virtual TPM 1.2 and 2.0 devices
- Devices: The EHCI and XHCI USB controller devices are now part of the open source base
package
- EFI: Added support for Secure Boot
- Debugging: Added experimental support for guest debugging through GDB and highly
experimental support for guest debugging through KD/WinDbg
In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
- OCI: Cloud networking functionality is enhanced for local VMs, now local VMs could be
connected to cloud networking
- GUI: Improved behavior of the virtual machine list and various VM related tools in case
multiple items are selected
- GUI: On available platforms, added a new option to disable the host’s screensaver
- GUI: Reworked global preferences, machine settings and the wizards to improve stability
and usability
- GUI: Improving mouse handling in multi-monitor case on X11 platform
- GUI: Medium enumeration engine was reworked to improve permormance
- GUI: NAT Network stuff was moved from global preferences to global Network Manager
tool
- GUI: Extension Pack Manager was moved from global preferences to global tools
- GUI: Improved overall accessibility
- GUI: Migrating to recent Qt versions.
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