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earlier releases. Earlier releases means anything with a lower number (e.g.
5.0.18 is lower than 5.1.2) which was released before this one. The log is
kept in the file doc/manual/user_ChangeLogImpl.xml. Anything worth mentioning,
particularly new features and fixed bugs, with a trac bug number if possible,
should be added to the top of the change log (that is, the section for the
upcoming release) for the branch in which it first appears - stable or
development - before the next release. If you back-port it to older branches
please add an entry there too. When a new major release is made, change log
sections for earlier releases are merged in.

Change log sections are split into two groups: major new features (normally
only for dot zero releases) and fixes. In addition, the entries in each group
are ordered as follows:

    VMM-related entries (most important)
    GUI-related entries (most visible for users)
    Device-related entries
    VBoxManage/API/Main-related entries
    Host-related entries
    Guest-related entries
    BIOS/EFI/ACPI-related entries

Please do further ordering as seems appropriate by importance and visibility for
users, e.g. audio before serial ports and generally Windows before Linux.  Please
also try to describe the user impact, not the technical details, and only use
technical terms if no non-technical ones are clear enough.
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  <sect1>
    <title>Version 6.0.4 (2019-01-28)</title>

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

    <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
        <para>Virtualization core: support Shanghai/Zhaoxin CPUs.</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>User interface: handle command line arguments to VirtualBox correctly
          (bugs #18206 and #18197)</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>User interface: improvements to machine manager window, virtual
           optical disk creator, storage selector window and log viewer window
           </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>User interface: various small fixes and improvements</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Audio: implemented time scheduling for the AC'97 device emulation
          to keep audio and video in sync</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Graphics: basic support for VMSVGA graphics device in virtual
           machines using EFI</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Network: fix occasional NATNet crashes (bug #13899)</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Network: worked around problems in certain PCnet drivers
           on old operating systems</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Serial: fixed connecting to pseudo terminals on POSIX hosts
          (6.0.0 regression; bug #18319)</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Linux hosts and guests: fix for building kernel modules
           against Linux 5.0.  Thank you Kyle Laker</para>
      </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>
  </sect1>

  <sect1>

    <title>Version 6.0.2 (2019-01-15)</title>

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

    <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          User interface: fixed creation of desktop shortcuts for
          starting virtual machines (bug #18207)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          User interface: allow the first run window to selecting host drives
          (bug #18230)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          User interface: fixed attaching empty host optical drives (bug #18223)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          User interface: implemented a new virtual optical disk creation
          window
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          USB: modified Linux backends to reset USB devices (previously, most
          guest attempts to reset USB devices were ignored)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          PCnet: fixed a regression which caused some PCnet PCI guest
          drivers to not detect the emulated hardware (bug #18286)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>Linux hosts: Skip device enumeration if PulseAudio interface is
          not available</para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Linux hosts: fixed conflict between Debian and Oracle build desktop
          files (bug #18264)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Linux and MacOS hosts: VirtualBoxVM command not accessible (bug #18257)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Windows guests: multiple monitor fixes with VBoxSVGA graphics
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Windows guests: black screen with VBoxSVGA graphics when 3D is
          disabled (bug #18205)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Linux guests: fixed building drivers on SLES 12.4 (bug #18213)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Linux guests: fixed building shared folder driver with older
          kernels (bug #18238)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          OS/2 shared folders: fixed write regression introduced in 6.0.0 GA
        </para>
      </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

  </sect1>

  <sect1>

    <title>Version 6.0.0 (2018-12-18)</title>

    <para>
      This is a major update. The following major new features were
      added:
    </para>

    <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Implemented support for exporting a virtual machine to Oracle
          Cloud Infrastructure
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          User interface: greatly improved HiDPI and scaling support,
          including better detection and per-machine configuration
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Major rework of user interface with simpler and more powerful
          application and virtual machine set-up
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          User interface: a new file manager enabling user to control
          the guest file system and copy files between host and guest.
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Graphics: major update of 3D graphics support for Windows
          guests, and VMSVGA 3D graphics device emulation on Linux and
          Solaris guests
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Added support for surround speaker setups (as used by Windows
          10 Build 1809)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Added utility <computeroutput>vboximg-mount</computeroutput>
          on Apple hosts to access the content of guest disks on the
          host
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Added support for using Hyper-V as the fallback execution core
          on Windows host, to avoid inability to run VMs at the price of
          reduced performance
        </para>
      </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

    <para>
      In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
    </para>

    <itemizedlist>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Execution core: fixed single-stepping in certain circumstances
          (bug #17316)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          User interface: video and audio recording can now be
          separately enabled
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Audio/Video recording fixes and improvements
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Audio: better support for attaching and detaching remote
          desktop connections
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Serial port emulation fixes
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Serial ports: allow changing the serial port attachment while
          a machine is running (bug #6115)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Networking: Added a workaround for older guests which do not
          enable bus mastering for the virtio PCI device
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Networking: fixed wrong RCODE from DNS AAAA query with
          --natdnshostresolver1 (bug #18171)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          iSCSI: In cases where there is no ambiguity, the LUN of an
          iSCSI target is automatically determined, for targets with
          non-zero LUNs
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Transparently resize disk images when merging if possible
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          VBoxManage: support for DHCP options
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Fixed VNC/RDP (bug #18153)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Guest Control: various new interfaces and features (see SDK
          documentation)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Linux hosts: support Linux 4.20 (thank you Larry Finger)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Solaris: installer fixes
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Shared folders: performance improvements
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Guest Additions: improved shared folder auto-mounting
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Windows Guest Additions: fix incorrect tablet co-ordinate
          handling with recent Windows 10 builds
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Linux Additions: fix for building vboxvideo on EL 7.6 standard
          kernel, contributed by Robert Conde (bug #18093)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Linux guests: support Linux 4.20 (thank you Larry Finger)
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          Linux guests: support VMSVGA in the Linux and X11 Additions
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          MacOS Guest Additions: initial support
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          OS/2 Guest Additions: initial shared folder support
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          BIOS fixes
        </para>
      </listitem>

      <listitem>
        <para>
          ACPI: Up to four custom ACPI tables can now be configured for
          a VM
        </para>
      </listitem>

    </itemizedlist>

  </sect1>

</chapter>