- Version bump to 6.1.28 (released October 19 2021 by Oracle)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VMM: Fixed guru meditation while booting nested-guests accessing debug registers under certain conditions
UI: Bug fixes for touchpad-based scrolling
VMSVGA: Fixed VM black screen issue on first resize after restoring from saved state (bug #20067)
VMSVGA: Fixed display corruption on Linux Mint (bug #20513)
Storage: Fixed a possible write error under certain circumstances when using VHD images (bug #20512)
Network: Multiple updates in virtio-net device support
Network: Disconnecting cable in saved VM state now is handled properly by virtio-net
Network: More administrative control over network ranges, see user manual
NAT: Fixed not rejecting TFTP requests with absolute pathnames (bug #20589)
Audio: Fixed VM session aborting after PC hibernation (bug #20516)
Audio: Fixed setting the line-in volume of the HDA emulation on modern Linux guests
Audio: Fixed resuming playback of the AC'97 emulation while a snapshot has been taken
API: Added bindings support for Python 3.9 (bug #20252)
API: Fixed rare hang of VM when changing settings at runtime
Linux host: Improved kernel modules installation detection which prevents unnecessary modules rebuild
Host Services: Shared Clipboard: Prevent guest clipboard reset when clipboard sharing is disabled (bug #20487)
Host Services: Shared Clipboard over VRDP: Fixed to continue working when guest service reconnects to host (bug #20366)
Host Services: Shared Clipboard over VRDP: Fixed preventing remote RDP client to hang when guest has no clipboard data to report
Linux Host and Guest: Introduced initial support for kernels 5.14 and 5.15
Linux Host and Guest: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.5 kernel
Windows Guest: Introduced Windows 11 guest support, including unattended installation
Deleted file "fix_ordering_of_qt_includes.patch" - fixed upstream.
Fixes CVE-2021-35538, CVE-2021-35545, CVE-2021-35540, CVE-2021-35542, and CVE-2021-2475 (boo#1191869)
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/926822
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Virtualization/virtualbox?expand=0&rev=621
