[German]Oracle's developers have released Virtualbox version 6.1.32 on January 18, 2022. It is a maintenance update that is supposed to fix bugs of previous versions. It also improves the HVCI compatibility of the guests for Hyper-V.
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According to the changelog, the version 6.1.32 update is intended to fix the following bugs in previous Virtualbox releases.
- VMM: Changed the guest RAM management when using Hyper-V to be more compatible with HVCI (bug #20627 and #20694)
- VMM: Workaround for OS/2 guest unstability on newer AMD CPUs due to a missing TLB flush in OS/2 (bug #20625)
- GUI: Fixed keyboard focus loss in rare circumstances when using the mini toolbar in fullscreen mode
- Audio: Fixed accidental creation of empty debug log file when the OSS audio backend was configured
- E1000: Fix link status reporting for certain Linux kernels (some Oracle Linux ones, probably more)
- Unattended installation: Fixed regression introduced in 6.1.28, causing partitioning failure for Windows XP to 10 (bug #20769)
- Solaris host: Fixed regression in installer, failed on Solaris 10
- Solaris host: Fix packaging regression, make vboxshell.py executable
- Linux host: Fix access to some USB devices, device class was not correctly handled (bug #20721)
- Guest: Fixed wrong mouse position if guest is in text mode
- Guest Control: Fixed folders copying from host to guest and from guest to host
- Guest Control: Fixes for UNICODE handling
- Shared Clipboard: Improved HTML content exchange between X11 and Windows guests and hosts
- OS/2 Additions: Fixed some issues with extended attributes in the shared folders (bug #19453)
The new version of the virtualization software can be downloaded for Windows, Mac OSX and Linux from this download page. It should be noted 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 conditions for the Extension Pack. (via)
