[German]As of July 18, 2023, the developers of Virtualbox have released both version7.0.10 and the update to version 6.1.46. Both versions are maintenance updates for bug fixes.
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According to the changelog, the version 7.0.10 update is intended to fix the following bugs in previous Virtualbox releases.
- OCI: Introduced general improvements
- VMM: Fixed sluggish performance starting with macOS Ventura 13.3 (bug #21563, bug#21596)
- VMM: Fixed a bug while walking page tables while executing nested VMs causing flooding of the release log as a consequence (Intel hosts only, bug #21551)
- GUI: Added general improvements
- TPM: Fixed a crash when a VM has a TPM version 1.2 configured (bug #21622)
- 3D: Initial support for OpenGL 4.1
- 3D: Fixed various graphics issues with Windows 11 guests (bugs #21136, #21515)
- Guest Control/VBoxManage: Fixed parameter "–ignore-orphaned-processes"
- Guest Control/VBoxManage: Fixed behavior of how handling argument 0 for a started guest process works: One can now explicitly specify it with the newly added option "–arg0". This will effectively restore the behavior of former VirtualBox versions
- Audio: Also use the PulseAudio backend when pipewire-pulse is running instead of falling back to ALSA (bug #21575)
- NAT: Adjusted UDP proxy timeout from 18-21 to 21-24 range to respect intended 20 second timeout (bug #21560)
- Linux Host: Added initial support for Indirect Branch Tracking (bug #21435)
- Linux Host: Added initial support for kernel 6.5 (NOTE: Guest Additions do not support kernel 6.5 yet)
- Solaris Host: Introduced general improvements in the installer area
- Linux Host and Guest: Improved condition check when kernel modules need to be signed
- Linux Host and Guest: Added initial support for RHEL 8.8 (bug #21692), 8.9 (bug #21690) and 9.3 (bugs #21598 and #21671) kernels
- MacOS Host and Guest: Introduced general improvements in the installer area
- Windows Host and Guest: Introduced ECDSA support (bug #21621)
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when kernel modules were rebuilt on each boot when guest system has no X11 installed
- Linux Guest Additions: Added initial support for kernel 6.4
- Linux Guest Additions: Fixed issue when vboxvideo module reloading caused kernel panic in some guests (bug #21740)
- Linux Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in the installer area
- Windows Guest Additions: Introduced general improvements in graphics drivers area
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.
The Changelog for Virtualbox version 6.1.46 in the more stable branch also lists a number of fixes.
