15 Change log • VHD: do not delay updating the footer when expanding the image to prevent image incon- sistency • USB: stability fix for some USB 2.0 devices • GUI: added a search index to the .chm help file • GUI/Windows hosts: fixed CapsLock handling on French keyboards (bug #2025) • Shared clipboard/X11 hosts: fixed a crash when clipboard initialisation failed (bug #4987) 15.18 Version 3.0.8 (2009-10-02) This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added: • VMM: fixed 64 bits guest on 32 bits host regression in 3.0.6 (VT-x only bug #4947) • VMM: fixed a recompiler triple fault guru meditation (VT-x & AMD-V only bug #5058) • VMM: fixed hang after guest state restore (AMD-V, 32 bits Windows guest and IO-APIC enabled only bug #5059) • VMM: fixed paging issue with OS/2 guests • VMM: fixed guru meditation in rare cases (2.0 regression software virtualization only) • VMM: fixed release assertion during state restore when using the Sound Blaster 16 emula- tion (bug #5042) • Security: fixed vulnerability that allowed to execute commands with root privileges • Linux hosts: fixed runtime assertion in semaphore implementation which was triggered under certain conditions (bug #616) • Linux hosts: change the default USB access mode on certain distributions (bugs #3394 and #4291) • Linux hosts: on hardened Gentoo, the VBoxSVC daemon crashed by opening the VM net- work settings (bug #3732) • Linux hosts, Solaris hosts: pass the XAUTHORITY variable along the DISPLAY variable when starting a VM from VBoxManage or from the VM selector (bug #5063) • Linux hosts: use sysfs to enumerate host drives if hal is not available • Solaris hosts: fixed a bug which would hang the host sporadically as interrupts were not re-enabled every time • Solaris hosts: fixed a kernel panic with bridged and host-only networking (bug #4775) • Solaris hosts: fixed incorrectly persistent CD/DVD-ROMs when changing them (bug #5077) • X11-based hosts: support additional function keys on Sun keyboards (bug #4907) • Mac OS X hosts (Snow Leopard): fixed problem starting headless VMs without a graphical session (bug #5002) • Mac OS X hosts: fixed problem listing host-only adapter names with trailing garbage (at- tached VMs won’t start) 209