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VirtualBox 7.1.6

VirtualBox 7.1.6 (released January 21 2025)

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

• VMM: Fixed issue when Windows 11 24H2 guest was experiencing BSOD in rare conditions
  
• GUI: Improved representation of disabled preferences contents (mask+font) when it is shown with certain Linux themes
  
• GUI: Fixed issue when seamless mode was not properly enabled or disabled in appropriate time according to GA status events
  
• GUI: Fixed rare crash on macOS hosts on application exit
  
• GUI: Fixed small 7.1.4 regression in preferences windows when filter editor was not in focus
  
• GUI: Introduced improvements in Advanced properties/settings dialog area
  
• GUI: Restored missing functionality to change bridged adapter at VM startup if current one wasn't found
  
• GUI: Fixed issue when Show action duplicates were created on macOS host in attempt to switch between running and powered off VMs
  
• GUI: Fixed regression when 3D acceleration check-box was not available for certain guest OS and graphical controller types
  
• GUI: Restored lost Help button for preferences windows on macOS
  
• GUI: Restored lost Help button shortcuts for certain windows
  
• GUI: Fixed issue when error message was shown when VM was starting in full-screen mode
  
• VirtioNet: Fixed issue with re-negotiation of features after reset
  
• Graphics: Fixed issue with Linux guest screen flickering when guest was using VMSVGA graphics adapter
  
• VBoxManage: Added the ability to export and import VMs which contain an NVMe storage controller
  
• VBoxManage: Fixed issue when it was not possible to set graphics controller to "QemuRamFB" using modifyvm command (bug #22232)
  
• Main: Fixed issue when specifying custom proxy server in GUI settings had no effect
  
• Network: Added changes which replaced NAT engines with libslirp
  
• Guest OSes: Added OS type for Windows Server 2025
  
• Linux guest and host: Added more fixes for UBSAN related warnings (bug #21877)
  
• Linux guest and host: Added initial support for RHEL 9.6 kernel
  
• Windows guests and host: Re-implemented driver installation
  
• Solaris host: Removed the VirtualBox GUI shared objects libqgtk2styleVBox.so and libqgtk2VBox.so from the Solaris installation packages as they depend on GTK2 which is EOL and no longer supported
  
• Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for kernel 6.13
  
• Linux Guest Additions: vboxvideo: Added improvement for kernel 6.4 support and fixed issue when graphics could be frozen when using VBoxVGA adapter
  
• Linux Guest Additions: Introduced additional fixes for kernel 6.12 in vboxvideo
  

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