[SRU] virtualbox 5.2.*
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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virtualbox (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
virtualbox-ext-pack (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
virtualbox-hwe (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bionic |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
[Impact]
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Guest Additions: Build problems fix with Oracle Linux 8.2 (Red Hat compatible kernel) / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 / CentOS 8.2 (bug #19391)
Guest Control: Various stability improvements
VirtualBox 5.2.40 (released April 14 2020)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
VBoxManage: Multiple fixes for guestcontrol command
USB: Multiple enhancements improving prformance and stability
Graphics: Enhancements in 2D and 3D acceleration and rendering
API: Fix exception handling bug in Python bindings
Linux: Support Linux kernel 5.6 (bug #19312)
VirtualBox 5.2.38 (released February 21 2020)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
USB: Fix isochronous transfers to the VM for xHCI
macOS host: Fix a possible crash when accessing VM related memory from the kernel
Linux guest: Support Linux 5.5 (bug #19145)
VirtualBox 5.2.36 (released January 14 2020)
This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
Audio: fixed crash in the HDA emulation when using multi-speaker configurations
VBoxManage: show graphics controller type in VM info
API: support Python 3.8
macOS host: Fix VM crashes (most visible on macOS Catalina)
Linux host: fix systemd service dependency for web service
Linux host: Support Linux 5.5 (guest additions not yet)
Linux host and guest: Support Linux 5.4 (bug #18945)
[Test Case]
* Install bionic, install hwe and hwe-edge, check if everything is good again
[Regression Potential]
* Really low, this is a minor update
Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in virtualbox (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in virtualbox-ext-pack (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in virtualbox-ext-pack (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in virtualbox-hwe (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
Changed in virtualbox-hwe (Ubuntu Bionic): | |
status: | New → In Progress |
Hello Gianfranco, or anyone else affected,
Accepted virtualbox into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https:/ /launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +source/ virtualbox/ 5.2.42- dfsg-0~ ubuntu1. 18.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/Testing/ EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.
If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification- needed- bionic to verification- done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification- failed- bionic. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.
Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/QATeam/ PerformingSRUVe rification . Thank you in advance for helping!
N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.