Oracle has released VirtualBox 4.3.26 Build 98988 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris. This version is a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.3 which improve stability and fixes regressions.
Overview
Oracle VM VirtualBox (aka VirtualBox) is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.
As of version 4.3, VirtualBox introduces the Extension Pack mechanism which allows Oracle and 3rd parties to deliver additional functionality on top of the standard Open Source product.
Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, 7, Windows 8/8.1), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.
What's new in VirtualBox 4.3?
VirtualBox 4.3 introduces a virtual multi-touch user interface, supports the input device features, of the latest platforms such as Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2 and Mac OS X 10.9 in a virtual environment. More information about VirtualBox 4.3 available here:
Download VirtualBox 4.3.26 Build 98988
VirtualBox is available for download from VirtualBox Download Center. Download the files appropriate for you.
What's new in VirtualBox 4.3.26 Build 98988?
VirtualBox 4.3.26 Build 98988 contains the following updates:
- GUI: in the snapshots pane, protect the age of snapshots against wrong host time (bug #13955)
- NAT Network: fixed a bug which prevented to propagate any DNS name server / domain / search string information to the NAT network (4.3.24 regression; bugs #13915, #13918)
- NAT Network: don't delay the shutdown of VBoxSVC on Windows hosts
- Mouse support: the mouse could not be moved under rare conditions if no Guest Additions are installed (4.3.24 regression; bug #13935)
- Storage: if the guest ejects a virtual CD/DVD medium, make the change permanent (bugs #9858, #12885)
- VGA: made saving secondary screen sizes possible in X11 guests
- SDK: fixed the VirtualBox.tlb file (4.3.20 regression; bug #13943)
- rdesktop-vrdp: make it work with USB devices again (4.3.14 regression; bug #13901)
- USB: fixed a possible BSOD on Windows hosts under rare conditions
- iPXE: enable the HTTP download protocol on non-Linux hosts (bug #13628)
- Mac OS X hosts: don't panic on hosts with activated SMAP (Broadwell and later; bug #13951)
- Linux hosts: don't crash Linux 4.0 hosts (bug #13835)
For further information about changes that are in this version of VirtualBox are available in the Changelog for VirtualBox 4.3.
Reference:
Oracle's Virtualization Blog
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