Changelog for VirtualBox 7.1

This page lists all changes of the VirtualBox 7.1 Downloads.
All branches: 7.1 · 7.0 · 6.1 · 6.0 · 5.2 · 5.1 · 5.0 · 4.3 · 4.2 · 4.1 · 4.0

VirtualBox 7.1.4 (released October 15 2024)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• GUI: Added latest NLS update for Turkish, Indonesian and Italian languages
• VMSVGA: Improved flickering, black screen and other screen update issues with recent Linux kernels (bug #21955)
• NAT: Fixed issue with restoring 7.0.X saved state
• VBoxManage: Fixed breakage of "list vms" and "showvminfo" for inaccessible VMs
• Windows host: Fixed system DLL size checking which failed with Windows 11 24H2 and recent Insider Preview builds (bug #22162)
• Linux Guest Additions: Introduce initial support for kernel 6.12 (NOTE: In kernel 6.12, KVM initializes virtualization on module loading by default. This prevents VirtualBox VMs from starting. In order to avoid this, either add "kvm.enable_virt_at_load=0" parameter into kernel command line or unload corresponding kvm_XXX module)
• Linux/Arm Guest Additions: Added possibility to automatically upgrade Guest Additions via Devices menu
• EFI: Added missing LsiLogic MPT SCSI driver again to fix booting from devices attached to this device if the EFI firmware is used (7.1.0 regression)
• EFI: Restored broken network boot support (7.1.0 regression)

VirtualBox 7.1.2 (released September 26 2024)

This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

• GUI: Added multiple window layout and translation related fixes
• GUI: Fixed an issue that meant VMs created using Unattended Install were not removed cleanly
• GUI: Added an option to change the remote display security method
• GUI: Removed the BETA label from the macOS/Arm UI
• NAT: Fixed slow performance on Windows host (bugs #22164 and #22180)
• NAT: Fixed DHCP problems with certain guests when domain is empty
• 3D: Fixed enabling 3D acceleration in the VM settings
• 3D: Fixed black screen with Windows VMs
• 3D: Fixed rendering issues caused by incorrect view handling
• 3D: Added possibility to enable 3D acceleration function for Arm platform VMs
• GCM: Fixed problem with loading saved state created by 7.0.x
• API: Fixed an issue with incorrect handling of NVRAM state with legacy BIOS and its removal on VM deletion
• API: Fixed UEFI Secure Boot state querying when the VM was never started
• Guest Additions: Fixed error message on automatic upgrading
• SDK: Fixed building code using the XPCOM bindings (bug #22174)

VirtualBox 7.1.0 (released September 09 2024)

This is a major update. The following new features were added:

• GUI: Modernized look and feel, offering a selection between Basic and Experienced user level with reduced or full UI functionality
• OCI Integration: Performance dashboard now shows resource usage for cloud VMs
• OCI Integration: Clone compute instances
• OCI Integration: Reset compute instances
• Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack: Update to the PUEL license, removing the evaluation option. For evaluation use of the Extension Pack, please download it from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
• VRDE: If user does not set up TLS with custom certificates, enable it with self-signed certificate, including issuing a new one before the old one expires
• NAT: New engine with IPv6 support
• macOS/Arm host: Arm virtualization for Linux and BSD VMs
• Linux host and guest: Added Wayland support for Clipboard sharing (bug #20808)
• Shared Clipboard: Added initial support for transferring files on Linux and Windows hosts / guests. This requires the 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed. See User Guide for known limitations
• Screen Recording: Significant performance improvements for the encoding pipeline, resulting in less CPU usage while recording is active. This requires 7.1 Guest Additions to be installed on Windows guests

In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:

• VMM: Fixed EFLAGS.TF handling for CPUID instructions when Hyper-V is being used (bug #17961)
• virtio-net: Follow up fixes for FreeBSD 12.3 and pfSense 2.6.0 (bug #21201)
• EFI: Ability to add new Microsoft DB/KEX certificates to newly created VMs
• Oracle Extension Pack: Fixed shipping the cryptographic support module for full VM encryption
• GUI: Improved overall accessibility
• GUI: Update the version of Qt used
• Unattended Installation: Added support for subiquity- / cloud-init-based installers; this enables installing more modern Linux-based guest OSes in Unattended mode
• Unattended Installation: Added support for specifying separate passwords for the user and admin / root accounts
• VBoxManage: Added ability to show and (re-)attach to a (video) recording progress of a VM
• VBoxManage: Added the ability to query the guest's mount points via a new "mount" Guest Control sub command. Requires at least 7.1 Guest Additions
• Python: Our API bindings for Python 2.x is now marked as being deprecated and will be removed in a future version. Please upgrade your code to use Python 3
• VBoxShell: Lots of smaller and bigger bugfixes + Python 3.x compatibility