[German]Oracle's developers have released Virtualbox version 6.1.4 on 19 January 2020. It is a maintenance update which should fix bugs of earlier versions.
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According to the changelog, the update of version 6.1.4 should fix the following bugs in earlier Virtualbox editions.
- Virtualization core: Fixed a rare issue with ICEBP instruction causing guru meditations on Intel hosts (6.1.0 regression; bug #19171)
- Virtualization core: Fixed macOS Catalina guests failing to boot after upgrading to 10.15.2 onwards (bug #19188)
- GUI: recent NLS integration and bug fixes for GUI and Qt translation tags
- USB: Fix isochronous transfers to the VM for xHCI
- Serial: Fix buffer handling, avoiding receiving stale data when the receive queue is flushed (bug #18671)
- Serial: Improve host serial port passthrough handling on Windows host
- VBoxManage: Restore old –clipboard option for modifyvm command
- macOS host: Use hardened runtime and request the needed entitlements, meeting latest notarization rules which also required moving VirtualBoxVM executable
- macOS host: Update osxfuse to v3.10.4
- Windows host: Update Italian translation of installer
- Windows host: Improve shared folder compatibility with POSIX append semantic (bug #19003)
- Windows host: Restore the ability to run VMs through Hyper-V, at the expense of performance
- Linux guest: Support Linux 5.5 (bug #19145)
- Linux guest: Shared folder fix for loopback mounting of images
- BIOS: Always report non-ATA disks as ready
- BIOS: Report EFI support through DMI table (bug 19144)
- VGA BIOS: Reduce stack space usage for INT 10h handlers
The new version of the virtualization software can be downloaded for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux from this download page. Note that an updated version of the VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack need also be downloaded and installed. VirtualBox can be used freely, but there are special license conditions for the Extension Pack. (via)
