The developers have released on October 16, 2018 an update for Virtualbox, the virtualization solution from Oracle. This update upgrades VirtualBox to version 5.2.20.
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According to the changelog the following has been fixed, changed or improved in Virtualbox 5.2.20.
- VMM: fixed task switches triggered by INTn instruction (bug #17979)
- Storage: fixed connecting to certain iSCSI targets (bug #17507)
- Storage: fixed handling of flush requests when configured to be ignored when the host I/O cache is used (bug #17573)
- Drag and drop: implemented support for UNC paths (bug #17146)
- Drag and drop: fixed resuming operation when restoring from a saved state (bug #17649)
- Drag and drop: fixed copying files with long file names (> 248 characters) from guests to Windows hosts (bug #17447)
- Drag and drop: fixed handling files with Unicode names on Windows guests (bug #15501)
- Drag and drop: fixed copying empty (0-byte) files to / from guests (bugs #14863 + #17443)
- Drag and drop: fixed copying over files from hosts to Linux guests (bug #16025)
- Networking: restore connectivity for guests bridged to host adapters that were unavailable temporarily (Windows hosts, bug #17090)
- Guest Control: fixed hang when using –wait-stdout and/or –wait-stderr (bug #17386). Needs updating Guest Additions
- Video recording: fixed starting video recording on VM power up (bug #17307)
- Linux Additions: various build fixes for kernel modules on recent distributions, and made sure modules end up in initramfs files
- Linux Additions: build fixes for 4.19, thank you Larry Finger
- Linux Additions: various small fixes for video driver
The new version of the virtualization software can be downloaded for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux from this download page. Please note that an updated version of the VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack must also be downloaded and installed. VirtualBox can be used freely, but there are special license terms for the Extension Pack.
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