Virtualbox 4.2.8 - Looks like Oracle may be getting ready for a new release

[menotu]

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.8/

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pinoc is now getting ready in the starting blocks     

[Texstar]

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.8/

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pinoc is now getting ready in the starting blocks     

pinoc the Usain Bolt of PCLinuxOS.

[NoIBnds]

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.8/

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pinoc is now getting ready in the starting blocks     

pinoc the Usain Bolt of PCLinuxOS.

He NEEDS someone to give him a run. Maybe it is time for SOMEONE to give him a run for the money     (no names mentioned) TEX

[pinoc]

I knew it. Almost always when I do a remaster they publish a new version 2 days after... 
will dropbox this later today.
-p.

[menotu]

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.8/

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pinoc is now getting ready in the starting blocks     

pinoc the Usain Bolt of PCLinuxOS.

 

Like a bolt from the blue 

[Old-Polack]

I knew it. Almost always when I do a remaster they publish a new version 2 days after...  
will dropbox this later today.
-p.

More than most, I know how hard you've worked on them, and I feel your pain.  

[menotu]

VirtualBox 4.2.8 released! - February 28th, 2013

Oracle today released VirtualBox 4.2.8 , a maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.2 which improves stability and fixes regressions.

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

    VMM: fixed guest crash with huge amount of guest RAM on VT-x hosts (bug #11306)
    GUI: fixed a layout bug in the Mac OS X clone VM dialog (bug #10982)
    GUI: not all the translation tags were taken into account during the language switch (bug #11342)
    GUI: take guest screenshot dialog sometimes had no keyboard input available on Windows host
    Main/Machine: fix generation of spurious event for inaccessible VMs which triggered an endless event generation loop in cooperation with the GUI which became unresponsive (4.2.6 regression, bug #11323)

    Main/Display: fix for an access violation under certain conditions in multi-monitor configurations (bug #10539)

    Main/Metrics: network metrics are now collected for active (up) interfaces only, the state of an interface being evaluated when the associated metric is enabled via setupMetrics

    Snapshots: reduce the time for merging snapshots under certain conditions
    Storage: fixed data corruption after resizing a VDI image under certain circumstances (bug #11344)
    Storage: fixed non working online merging of snapshots (4.2.6 regression, bug #11359)
    Storage: fixed crash when connecting to certain QNAP iSCSI targets
    Storage: fixed incompatibility of VHD differencing images with Hyper-V (bug #5990)
    Bridged Networking: fixed TCP pseudo header checksum computation for IPv6 (bug #9380)
    3D support: fix Battlefield 1942 game crashes (bug #11369)

    Settings: really sanitize the name of VM folders and settings file, the code was disabled before (bug #10549)

    Settings: allow to change VRDE settings for saved VMs
    VBoxManage: don't crash during screenshotpng if there is no display (bug #11363)
    Linux hosts: work around gcc bug 55940 which might lead to wrong kernel module code if gcc 4.7 is used to compile the 32-bit Linux host kernel (bug #11035)

    Linux hosts: fixed inconsistent lock state and deadlock warnings on module load and VM startup when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is enabled (bug #11318)

    Linux hosts: made "]" key work again on Japanese keyboards

    Mac OS X hosts: don't crash the kernel during dtrace if the VBox kernel extensions are loaded (10.6 hosts only; bug #11273)

    Solaris / Mac OS X hosts: machine CPU load metrics now report 100% when all cores are fully utilized (used to be a single core)

    Solaris 11 host installer: wait for any services left over from a previous installation to be terminated to avoid confusing SMF.

    Guest Additions: don't block signals for processes executed via guest control
    Guest Additions: fixed a small memory leak in VBoxService (bug #10970)

    Windows Additions: fixed shared folder issue with large reads/writes on 64 bit Windows guests (bug #11115)

    Linux Additions: Linux 3.8 compile fixes (bug #11036)
    X11 Additions: fixed blocked SIGALRM in 3D desktop sessions (bug #10987)

    X11 Additions: fixed an unresolved reference in vboxvideo_drv for X.org 6.8 guests and before (e.g. RHEL4; 4.2.0 regression)

    X11 Additions: fixed screen automatic resizing for guests with X.org 1.3 or older (4.2.0 regression)

https://www.virtualbox.org/

http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.8/

[NoIBnds]

I am confused a little--easy to do though-- I opened virtual box and check if latest version and it says up to date, at version 4.2.6
Then I look at GetVirtualBox script in PASS and it says we are at version 4.2.6-1
yet this thread says were should be at 4.2.8     

[pinoc]

I am confused a little--easy to do though-- I opened virtual box and check if latest version and it says up to date, at version 4.2.6
Then I look at GetVirtualBox script in PASS and it says we are at version 4.2.6-1
yet this thread says were should be at 4.2.8     

the new getvirtualbox package for version 4.2.8 needs to be done first before you can use it. I have just sent it to the upload queue so it should be in Synaptic shortly.
-p.

[menotu]

I am confused a little--easy to do though-- I opened virtual box and check if latest version and it says up to date, at version 4.2.6
Then I look at GetVirtualBox script in PASS and it says we are at version 4.2.6-1
yet this thread says were should be at 4.2.8     

Virtualbox 4.2.8 was released  only some hours ago and as pinoc mentions his getvirtualbox script package first needs to be amended  to 4.2.8 and then sent to the repos and so on........

One thing I can say though - with  pinoc  on the job things will move swiftly

[agmg]

One thing I can say though - with  pinoc  on the job things will move swiftly

+1000 on that

[NoIBnds]

I am confused a little--easy to do though-- I opened virtual box and check if latest version and it says up to date, at version 4.2.6
Then I look at GetVirtualBox script in PASS and it says we are at version 4.2.6-1
yet this thread says were should be at 4.2.8     

the new getvirtualbox package for version 4.2.8 needs to be done first before you can use it. I have just sent it to the upload queue so it should be in Synaptic shortly.
-p.

I understand that on this one, but look at your response "reply 3" on January 31st, that you were sending 4.2.8 to dropbox. The other part of my question was why when I open VB and ask about updates, it says up to date, yet they came out with 4.2.8 almost a month ago. I was not talking about today's update. I know you couldn't get it that fast. I was looking at the whole thread not just todays.

[pinoc]

I am confused a little--easy to do though-- I opened virtual box and check if latest version and it says up to date, at version 4.2.6
Then I look at GetVirtualBox script in PASS and it says we are at version 4.2.6-1
yet this thread says were should be at 4.2.8     

the new getvirtualbox package for version 4.2.8 needs to be done first before you can use it. I have just sent it to the upload queue so it should be in Synaptic shortly.
-p.

I understand that on this one, but look at your response "reply 3" on January 31st, that you were sending 4.2.8 to dropbox. The other part of my question was why when I open VB and ask about updates, it says up to date, yet they came out with 4.2.8 almost a month ago. I was not talking about today's update. I know you couldn't get it that fast. I was looking at the whole thread not just todays.

at that time I thought it was out but it was not. Only came out today. Anyway, on its way to the repos.
-p.

[NoIBnds]

I am confused a little--easy to do though-- I opened virtual box and check if latest version and it says up to date, at version 4.2.6
Then I look at GetVirtualBox script in PASS and it says we are at version 4.2.6-1
yet this thread says were should be at 4.2.8     

the new getvirtualbox package for version 4.2.8 needs to be done first before you can use it. I have just sent it to the upload queue so it should be in Synaptic shortly.
-p.

I understand that on this one, but look at your response "reply 3" on January 31st, that you were sending 4.2.8 to dropbox. The other part of my question was why when I open VB and ask about updates, it says up to date, yet they came out with 4.2.8 almost a month ago. I was not talking about today's update. I know you couldn't get it that fast. I was looking at the whole thread not just todays.

at that time I thought it was out but it was not. Only came out today. Anyway, on its way to the repos.
-p.

THAT explains it. Also why VB wasn't showing update available. Thank You