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- Version bump to 6.1.34 (released March 22 2022) by Oracle

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

VMM: Fix instruction emulation for "cmpxchg16b"
GUI: Improved GUI behavior on macOS Big Sur and later when kernel extensions are not loaded
EHCI: Addressed an issue with handling short packets (bug #20726)
Storage: Fixed a potential hang during disk I/O when the host I/O cache is disabled (bug #20875)
NVMe: Fixed loading saved state when nothing is attached to it (bug #20791)
DevPcBios: Addressed an issue which resulted in rejecting the detected LCHS geometry when the head count was above 16
virtio-scsi: Improvements
E1000: Improve descriptor handling
VBoxManage: Fixed handling of command line arguments with incomplete quotes (bug #20740)
VBoxManage: Improved 'natnetwork list' output
VBoxManage: NATNetwork: Provide an option (--ipv6-prefix) to set IPv6 prefix
VBoxManage: NATNetwork: Provide an option (--ipv6-default) to advertise default IPv6 route (bug #20714)
VBoxManage: Fix documentation of "usbdevsource add" (bug #20849)
Networking: General improvements in IPv4 and IPv6 area (bug #20714)
OVF Import: Allow users to specify a different storage controller and/or controller port for hard disks when importing a VM
Unattended install: Improvements
Shared Clipboard: Improved HTML clipboard handling for Windows host
Linux host and guest: Introduced initial support for kernel 5.17
Solaris package: Fixes for API access from Python
Solaris IPS package: Suppress dependency on libpython2.7.so.*
Linux host and guest: Fixes for Linux kernel 5.14
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed guest screen resize for older guests which are running libXrandr older than version 1.4
Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.6 kernels (bug #20877)
Windows guest: Make driver install smarter
Solaris guest: Addressed an issue which prevented VBox GAs 6.1.30 or 6.1.32 from being removed in Solaris 10 guests (bug #20780)
EFI: Fixed booting from FreeBSD ISO images (bug #19910)

Removed file "fixes_for_kernel_5.17.patch" - fixed upstream.

Fixes CVE-2022-21465 (boo#1198676), CVE-2022-21471 (boo#1198677), CVE-2022-21491 (boo#1198680), CVE-2022-21487 (boo#1198678), and CVE-2022-21488 (boo#1198679).

Fixed boo#1198703 - package virtualbox-websrv needs sysvinit-tools

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- Version bump to 6.1.34 (released March 22 2022) by Oracle

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

VMM: Fix instruction emulation for "cmpxchg16b"
GUI: Improved GUI behavior on macOS Big Sur and later when kernel extensions are not loaded
EHCI: Addressed an issue with handling short packets (bug #20726)
Storage: Fixed a potential hang during disk I/O when the host I/O cache is disabled (bug #20875)
NVMe: Fixed loading saved state when nothing is attached to it (bug #20791)
DevPcBios: Addressed an issue which resulted in rejecting the detected LCHS geometry when the head count was above 16
virtio-scsi: Improvements
E1000: Improve descriptor handling
VBoxManage: Fixed handling of command line arguments with incomplete quotes (bug #20740)
VBoxManage: Improved 'natnetwork list' output
VBoxManage: NATNetwork: Provide an option (--ipv6-prefix) to set IPv6 prefix
VBoxManage: NATNetwork: Provide an option (--ipv6-default) to advertise default IPv6 route (bug #20714)
VBoxManage: Fix documentation of "usbdevsource add" (bug #20849)
Networking: General improvements in IPv4 and IPv6 area (bug #20714)
OVF Import: Allow users to specify a different storage controller and/or controller port for hard disks when importing a VM
Unattended install: Improvements
Shared Clipboard: Improved HTML clipboard handling for Windows host
Linux host and guest: Introduced initial support for kernel 5.17
Solaris package: Fixes for API access from Python
Solaris IPS package: Suppress dependency on libpython2.7.so.*
Linux host and guest: Fixes for Linux kernel 5.14
Linux Guest Additions: Fixed guest screen resize for older guests which are running libXrandr older than version 1.4
Linux Guest Additions: Introduced initial support for RHEL 8.6 kernels (bug #20877)
Windows guest: Make driver install smarter
Solaris guest: Addressed an issue which prevented VBox GAs 6.1.30 or 6.1.32 from being removed in Solaris 10 guests (bug #20780)
EFI: Fixed booting from FreeBSD ISO images (bug #19910)

Removed file "fixes_for_kernel_5.17.patch" - fixed upstream.

Fixes CVE-2022-21465 (boo#1198676), CVE-2022-21471 (boo#1198677), CVE-2022-21491 (boo#1198680), CVE-2022-21487 (boo#1198678), and CVE-2022-21488 (boo#1198679).

Fixed boo#1198703 - package virtualbox-websrv needs sysvinit-tools


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