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Release Notes | Oracle VirtualBox 5.1.6

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In this page we post the official release notes and changelogs related to Oracle VirtualBox 5.1.6, if and as software developers make available these. However, if you need more info on Oracle VirtualBox 5.1.6, or relases notes are not available yet, you can always consider to read its description as well.

Oracle VirtualBox 5.1.6
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
  • GUI: fixed issue with opening '.vbox' files and it's aliases
  • GUI: keyboard grabbing fixes (bugs #15771 and #15745)
  • GUI: fix for passing through Ctrl + mouse-click (Mac OS X hosts only; bug #15714)
  • GUI: fixed automatic deletion of extension pack files (bugs #11352 and #14742)
  • USB: fixed showing unknown device instead of the manufacturer or product description under certain circumstances (5.1.0 regression; bug #15764)
  • XHCI: another fix for a hanging guest under certain conditions as result of the fix for bug #15747, this time for Windows 7 guests
  • Serial: fixed high CPU usage with certain USB to serial converters on Linux hosts (bug #7796)
  • Storage: fixed attaching stream optimized VMDK images (bug #14764)
  • Storage: reject image variants which are unsupported by the backend (bug #7227)
  • Storage: fixed loading saved states created with VirtualBox 5.0.10 and older when using a SCSI controller (bug #15865)
  • Storage: fixed broken NVMe emulation if the host I/O cache setting is enabled
  • Storage: fixed using multiple NVMe controllers if ICH9 is used
  • NVMe: fixed a crash during reset which could happen under certain circumstances
  • Audio: fixed microphone input (5.1.2 regression; bugs #14386 and #15802)
  • Audio: fixed crashes under certain conditions (5.1.0 regression; bug #15887 and others)
  • Audio: fixed recording with the ALSA backend (5.1 regression)
  • Audio: fixed stream access mode with OSS backend (5.1 regression, thanks to Jung-uk Kim)
  • E1000: do also return masked bits when reading the ICR register, this fixes booting from iPXE (5.1.2 regression; bug #15846)
  • BIOS: fixed 4bpp scanline calculation (bug #15787)
  • API: relax the check for the version attribute in OVF/OVA appliances (bug #15856)
  • Windows hosts: fixed crashes when terminating the VM selector or other VBox COM clients (bug #15726 and others)
  • Linux Installer: fixed path to the documentation in .rpm packages (5.1.0 regression)
  • Linux Installer: fixed the vboxdrv.sh script to prevent an SELinux complaint (bug #15816)
  • Linux hosts: don't use 32-bit legacy capabilities
  • Linux Additions: Linux 4.8 fix for the kernel display driver (bugs #15890 and #15896)
  • Linux Additions: don't load the kernel modules provided by the Linux distribution but load the kernel modules from the official Guest Additions package instead (bug #15324)
  • Linux Additions: fix dynamic resizing problems in recent Linux guests (bug #15875)
  • User Manual: fixed error in the VBoxManage chapter for the getextradata enumerate example (bug #15862)
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