VirtualBox ist für Windows, Mac OS X, Linux und Solaris verfügbar. Zu den unterstützten Gastsystemen zählen neben Windows, Linux und Solaris auch OS/2, DOS und einige BSD-Derivate.

Changelog 2.2.4 zu 3.0.0

• This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
  • Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only; see chapter 3.7.2.2 of the user manual)
  • Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental; see chapter 4.8 of the user manual)
  • Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests
• In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
  • Solaris hosts: allow suspend/resume on the host when a VM is running (bug #3826)
  • Solaris hosts: loosen the restriction for contiguous physical memory under certain conditions
  • Mac OS X hosts: fixed guest PAE
  • Linux hosts: kernel module compile fixes for 2.6.31 (bug #4264)
  • VMM: fixed occasional guru meditation when loading a saved state (VT-x only)
  • VMM: eliminated IO-APIC overhead with 32 bits guests (VT-x only, some Intel CPUs don’t support this feature (most do); bug #638)
  • VMM: fixed 64 bits CentOS guest hangs during early boot (AMD-V only; bug #3927)
  • VMM: performance improvements for certain PAE guests (e.g. Linux 2.6.29+ kernels)
  • VMM: some Windows guests detected a completely wrong CPU frequency (bug #2227)
  • VMM: fixed hanging and unkillable VM processes (bug #4040)
  • VMM: fixed random infrequent guest crashes due to XMM state corruption (Win64 hosts only)
  • VMM: performance improvements for network I/O (VT-x/AMD-V only)
  • GUI: added mini toolbar for fullscreen and seamless mode (Thanks to Huihong Luo)
  • GUI: redesigned settings dialogs
  • GUI: allow to create/remove more than one host-only network adapters (non Windows hosts)
  • GUI: display estimated time for long running operations (e.g. OVF import/export)
  • GUI: fixed rare hangs when open the OVF import/export wizards (bug #4157)
  • 3D support: fixed VM crashes for client applications using incorrect OpenGL states
  • 3D support: fixed memory corruption when querying for supported texture compression formats
  • 3D support: fixed incorrect rendering of glDrawRangeElements
  • 3D support: fixed memory leak when using VBOs
  • 3D support: fixed glew library detection
  • 3D support: fixed random textures corruption
  • VRDP: support Windows 7 RDP client
  • Networking: fixed another problem with TX checksum of?oading with Linux kernels up to version 2.6.18
  • NAT: fixed “open ports on virtual router 10.0.2.2 - 513, 514” (forum)
  • NAT: allow to configure socket and internal parameters
  • NAT: allow to bind sockets to specific interface
  • PXE boot: significant performance increase (VT-x/AMD-V only)
  • VHD: properly write empty sectors when cloning of VHD images (bug #4080)
  • VHD: fixed crash when discarding snapshots of a VHD image
  • VHD: fixed access beyond the block bitmap which could lead to arbitrary crashes
  • VBoxManage: fixed incorrect partition table processing when creating VMDK files giving raw partition access (bug #3510)
  • VBoxManage: support cloning to existing image file
  • OVF: several OVF 1.0 compatibility fixes
  • OVF: fixed exporting of disk images when multiple virtual machines are exported at once
  • Virtual mouse device: eliminated micro-movements of the virtual mouse which were confusing some applications (bug #3782)
  • Shared Folders: sometimes a file was created using the wrong permissions (2.2.0 regression; bug #3785)
  • Shared Folders: allow to change file attributes from Linux guests and use the correct file mode when creating files
  • Shared Folders: some content was incorrectly written under certain conditions (bug #1187)
  • Shared Folders: fixed incorrect file timestamps, when using Windows guest on a Linux host (bug #3404)
  • X11 clipboard: fix duplicate end of lines (bug #4270)
  • X11 guests: a number of shared clipboard fixes
  • Linux guests: Guest Additions support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11
  • Linux guests: new daemon vboxadd-service to handle time synchronization and guest property lookup
  • Linux guests: implemented guest properties (OS info, logged in users, basic network information)
  • Windows host installer: VirtualBox Python API can now be installed automatically (requires Python and Win32 Extensions installed)
  • USB: Support for high-speed isochronous endpoints has been added. In addition, read-ahead buffering is performed for input endpoints (currently Linux hosts only). This should allow additional devices to work, notably webcams (bug #242).
  • USB: fixed error handling for some USB dongles
  • Web service: fixed inability to handle NULL pointers for object arguments, which are valid values for a lot of APIs, in both the raw and the object-oriented web service.
  • Web service: object-oriented bindings for JAX-WS did not exhibit interface inheritance correctly, fixed
  • Web service: added support for IDisplay and IGuest interfaces, which were previously unavailable
  • Registration dialog uses Sun Online accounts now

• VirtualBox 3.0.0 (Windows)
• VirtualBox 3.0.0 (Mac OS X, Intel-CPU)
• VirtualBox 3.0.0 (Solaris/OpenSolaris)
• VirtualBox 3.0.0 für verschiedene Linuxdistributionen

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Pidgin unterstützt derzeit folgende Protokolle:

• AIM
• Bonjour
• Gadu-Gadu
• Google Talk
• Groupwise
• ICQ
• IRC
• MSN
• MySpaceIM
• QQ
• SILC
• SIMPLE
• Sametime
• XMPP
• Yahoo!
• Zephyr

• Yahoo Protocol 16 support, including new HTTPS login method; this should fix a number of login problems that have recently cropped up. (Sulabh Mahajan, Mike "Maiku" Ruprecht)
• Only display the AIM "Unable to Retrieve Buddy List" message once per connection. (Rob Taft)
• Blocking MSN users not on your buddy list no longer disconnects you.
• When performing operations on MSN, assume users are on the MSN/Passport network if we don't get network ID's for them.

• Pidgin 2.5.7 (Windows)
• Pidgin 2.5.7 (Sourcecode)

• Pidgin Webseite
• Release Notes und Changelog

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Weitere neue Features:

- Speed Dial
- Opera Turbo
- Automatic updates
- Crash logging
- Inline spelling checker
- 100/100 and pixel-perfect on the Acid3 test
- Significantly improved performance, particularly on CSS/HTML rendering
- Opera Mail HTML Compose support

Das komplette Changelog findet ihr hier.

Download:

• Opera 10 Beta 1 [Windows]
• Opera 10 Beta 1 [Mac OS X]
• Linux und weitere Betriebssysteme

Quelle: Welcome to Opera 10 Beta 1

Danke an Perry3D für den Hinweis.

Hinweis:

• Was ist eine Beta-Version?

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Changelog in Kurzform:

• Reduced minimum memory requirement to 32Mb. In theory ReactOS can now be installed with 24Mb and run with only 20Mb
• A new, faster Hyperspace Mapping Interface has been implemented in the kernel resulting in a speed improvement of over 300%
• Security check improvements to the Object Manager in the kernel improves performance by 500%. Noticeable during large file/registry operations
• Various NDIS and AFD problems have been solved which increase compatibility with 3rd party NIC drivers and hardening of the network stack
• Preliminary support for sound via the new Kernel Streaming service. It's now possible to use the ac97 driver via our new Port Class library to play sound bytes using winamp
• A great deal of work has been put into the command prompt to make it much more compatible. It's now able to run very complex scripts, including our own Build Environment
• Many bugfixes to the kernel mode portion of the GDI resulting in much improved drawing engine across all bit depths
• Synchronization of most of the Wine usermode DLLs

Wer ReactOS einmal selbst ausprobieren möchte, sollte sich folgenden Hinweis zu Herzen nehmen:

Bitte beachten Sie, dass sich ReactOS 0.3.9 noch in der alpha-Phase befindet und es derzeit nicht empfehlenswert ist, es für die tägliche Arbeit zu verwenden.

Download:

• ReactOS 0.3.9 (33,4 MB)
• ReactOS 0.3.9 Live-CD (32,4 MB)
• ReactOS 0.3.9 VMware-Image (31,1 MB)
• ReactOS 0.3.9 QEMU-Image (32,1 MB)

• Offizielles Release Announcement
• Screenshots
• Ausführliches Changelog
• ReactOS Homepage
• Was ist eine Alpha-Version?

New Features

This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon™
Display Driver. These include the following:

• Support for New Linux Operating Systems

Support for New Linux Operating Systems

This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating
system:

• RHEL 5.3 production support
• Ubuntu 9.04 support (early look)

Download:

• ATI Catalyst 9.4 Proprietary Linux x86 & x86_64 Display Driver

Links zum Thema:

• Release Notes
• AMD Catalyst 9.4 Finally Brings X Server 1.6 Support (Phoronix)

-> Kommentare

VirtualBox ist für Windows, Mac OS X, Linux und Solaris verfügbar. Zu den unterstützten Gastsystemen zählen neben Windows, Linux und Solaris auch OS/2, DOS und einige BSD-Derivate.

Changelog 2.1.4 zu 2.2.0

• This version is a major update. The following major new features were added:
  • OVF (Open Virtualization Format) appliance import and export (see chapter 3.8, Importing and exporting virtual machines, User Manual page 55)
  • Host-only networking mode (see chapter 6.7, Host-only networking, User Manual page 88)
  • Hypervisor optimizations with significant performance gains for high context switching rates
  • Raised the memory limit for VMs on 64-bit hosts to 16GB
  • VT-x/AMD-V are enabled by default for newly created virtual machines
  • USB (OHCI & EHCI) is enabled by default for newly created virtual machines (Qt GUI only)
  • Experimental USB support for OpenSolaris hosts
  • Shared folders for Solaris and OpenSolaris guests
  • OpenGL 3D acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests (see chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), User Manual page 70)
  • Added C API in addition to C++, Java, Python and Web Services
• In addition, the following items were fixed and/or added:
  • VMM: FreeBSD guest related fix for V86 flags (bug #2342)
  • VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting an AsteriskNow Linux VM (bug #2342)
  • VMM: fixed PGMPOOLKIND_FREE guru meditation (bugs #3356, #3431)
  • VMM: fixed Windows XP boot hang (guest PAE + nested paging only)
  • VMM: allow mixing of VT-x/AMD-V and software virtualization
  • VMM: fixed extremely slow safe mode booting in e.g. Windows 2008 (VT-x/AMD-V only)
  • VMM: significant speedup of certain GRUB boot loaders (e.g. Solaris) (VT-x/AMD-V only)
  • VMM: real-mode IOPL fix for DOS guests (VT-x only)
  • VMM: fixed VT-x detection with certain BIOSes that enable VT-x, but don’t set the lock bit in MSR_IA32_FEATURE_CONTROL
  • VMM: fixed hibernation issues on Windows XP hosts (VT-x only; bug #1794)
  • VMM: properly emulate RDMSR from the TSC MSR, should fix some NetBSD guests
  • VMM: emulate RDPMC; fixes Windows guests crashes when using the Kaspersky virus scanner (bug #1778)
  • NAT: fixed truncated downloads (FTP) (bug #3257)
  • NAT: blocked UDP packets caused a crash (bug #3426)
  • NAT: allow to configure the next server and the boot file via VBoxManage (bug #2759)
  • IDE: fixed hard disk upgrade from XML-1.2 settings (bug #1518)
  • Hard disk: support more VMDK file variants (including fixed-size ESX server images)
  • Hard disks: refuse to start the VM if a disk image is not writable
  • USB: further reduced host CPU utilization for OHCI and EHCI; the “VBoxInternal/Devices/usb-ohci/0/Config/FrameRate” CFG key is no longer necessary and no longer supported
  • USB: fixed BSOD on the host with certain USB devices (Windows hosts only; bug #1654)
  • E1000: properly handle cable disconnects (bug #3421)
  • VRDP: fixed hangs when VRDP server is enabled or disabled in runtime
  • Shared folders: respect umask settings on Linux, OSX and Solaris hosts when creating files
  • X11 guests: prevented setting the locale in vboxmouse, as this caused problems with Turkish locales (bug #3563)
  • X11 guests: show the guest mouse pointer at the right position if the virtual desktop is larger than the guest resolution (bug #2306)
  • Linux additions: fixed typo when detecting Xorg 1.6 (bug #3555)
  • Solaris guests: added xpg4/xcu4 dependency to the guest additions installer (bug #3524)
  • Windows guests: bind the VBoxMouse.sys filter driver to the correct guest pointing device (bug #1324)
  • Windows hosts: fixed BSOD when starting a VM with enabled host interface (bug #3414)
  • Linux hosts: do proper reference counting to prevent unloading the vboxnetflt module as long as this code is in use (bug #3104)
  • Linux hosts: do not leave zombies of VBoxSysInfo.sh (bug #3586)
  • Linux installers: fixes for Slackware, Arch Linux and Linux from Scratch systems
  • Windows installers: combined installer executable which contains both (32- and 64-bit) architectures.
  • VBoxManage: less cryptic command-line error messages
  • VBoxManage list vms commands now default to compact format
  • VBoxManage controlvm dvdattach did not work if the image was attached before
  • VBoxManage: allow creation of all supported disk image variants
  • VBoxManage showvminfo: don’t spam the release log if the additions don’t support statistics information (bug #3457)
  • VBoxManage: big command line processing cleanup, the legacy single-dash options are deprecated and will be removed in the next major release, so switch to the new options now
  • Hard disks: improved immutable disk support to auto-reset diff file at VM startup (related to bug #2772)
  • GUI: enable the audio adapter by default for new VMs
  • GUI: warn if VT-x/AMD-V is not operational when starting a 64-bit guest
  • GUI: deactivate 64-bit guest support when the host CPU does not support VT-x/AMD-V
  • GUI: removed floppy icon from the status bar
  • GUI: show build revision in about dialog
  • GUI: fixed sticky status bar text
  • GUI: improved error dialogs
  • GUI: fail with an appropriate error message when trying to boot a read-only disk image (bug #1745)
  • GUI/Mac OS X: fixed disabled close button
  • GUI/Windows: re-enabled support for copy and paste (Windows hosts 2.0 regression; bug #2065)
  • 3D support: added OpenGL select/feedback support (bug #2920)
  • 3D support: close OpenGL subsystem for terminated guest applications (bug #3243)
  • 3D support: fixed VM hangs when starting guests with 3D acceleration enabled (bug #3437)
  • PXE: fixed boot hangs when hardware virtualization is used (bug #2536)
  • LsiLogic: fixed problems with Solaris guests
  • Main API: close machine settings XML file when unregistering machine (bug #3548)

• VirtualBox 2.2.0 (Windows)
• VirtualBox 2.2.0 (Mac OS X, Intel-CPU)
• VirtualBox 2.2.0 (Solaris/OpenSolaris)
• VirtualBox 2.2.0 für verschiedene Linuxdistributionen

-> Kommentare

New Features

This section provides information on new features found in this release of the Radeon™
Display Driver. These include the following:

• Support for New Linux Operating Systems
• New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK
• ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition – Display Device property page
  enhancement
• OpenGL support for Compositing managers

Support for New Linux Operating Systems

This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating
system:

RedFlag DT 6.0 sp2 production support

• RedFlag DT 7.0 support (early look)
• SLED and SLES 11 support (early look)

New AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK

AMD Display Library (ADL) SDK is designed to access display driver functionality
for all ATI Radeon graphics accelerators and FirePro graphics accelerators

• The SDK supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux - 32 and 64 bit variants
• The SDK can be used from both unmanaged (C/C++) and managed (C#) applications
  

  - samples are provided within the SDK

• The ADL SDK is available to the public via the Developer relations site

ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition – Display Device
property page enhancement

This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux enables users to configure new display settings
within the ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition.

• HDTV mode support (720p, 1080i, 1080p, and custom) for digital displays
• Color temperature controls for digital displays
• Hue, Saturation, Brightness, and Contrast color controls for digital displays
• Digital display controls (Overscan support, HDMI settings, DVI settings)

OpenGL support for Compositing managers

Added support for the use of OpenGL clients under compositing environments such as compiz and kwin as found in Ubuntu and SuSE

Download:

• ATI Catalyst 9.3 Proprietary Linux x86 & x86_64 Display Driver

Links zum Thema:

• Release Notes
• AMD Catalyst 9.3 For Linux Brings OpenGL Composite Support (Phoronix)

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Changes since Opera 9.63:

Security

* Fixed an issue where specially crafted JPEG images ccould be used to execute arbitrary code, as reported by Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team; see our advisory

* Fixed an issue where plug-ins could be used to allow cross domain scripting, as reported by Adam Barth; details will be disclosed at a later date.

* Fixed a moderately severe issue; details will be disclosed at a later date.

* Added support for the following platform-specific features:

o DEP (Data Execution Prevention) in Microsoft WindowsXP® with Service Pack 2 and higher and Microsoft Windows Server 2003® with Service Pack 1
o ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization) in Microsoft Windows Vista®

* Added Untrusted Rootstore Capability:

o Opera downloads only the detailed information about untrusted (blacklisted) certificates when they are encountered
o If download fails for certificate information in the list, Opera considers any certificate matching the ID as untrusted

* Added version conditional fetching of certificate dependencies from an online repository

* Fixed a problem downloading the CRL (Certificate Revocation List)

* Fixed a problem that could cause SSL to deadlock in one state, hanging the connection

* Fixed a problem that could cause the incorrect calculation of Certificate IDs

* Implemented Extended Validation (EV) for cross-signed EV Root Certificates not shipped by default

* Implemented preshipping of the Entrust 2048 CA (Certificate Authority)

* Implemented Root Certificate fetching from an online repository when an intermediate matches a certificate in the repository

* Improved support for weak encryption when importing .p12 private certificates

* Prevented security information documents from being written to disk

Miscellaneous

* Fixed a problem which created separate feed notifications; Opera now groups them together

* Fixed a problem with inline find when no content was entered and the Enter key was pressed

* Implemented opacity on text styled with hexidecimal color codes

* Installing an external source viewer no longer requires an Opera restart

* Installing Opera sets it as the default browser; this may be reset during the install process

Download:

• Opera 9.64 [Windows]
• Opera 9.64 [Linux]
• Opera 9.64 [Mac OS X]

• Opera 9.64 - Changelog
• Opera 9 Screenshots
• Opera 9 Features

-> Kommentare

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.6.4 to GIMP 2.6.5
=================================================

* Bugs fixed:

571628 – Scaling image to 25% turn background from white to grey
567840 – GIMP's GtkScaleButton conflicts with GTK's
569043 – GEGL tool - missing Operation Settings for all sub-tools
568890 – don't rely on GtkAction implementation details
568909 – wrong RGB values for color names in libgimpcolor/gimprgb-parse.c
568839 – wrong hex RGB value for the color names slategrey and slategray
559408 - Brushes dragged to the image window look strange
563337 – Rectangle Select Tool does not allow 1:1 fixed ratio
568016 – Black pullout parameter of plug-in-newsprint has no effect
562818 – First image opened in GIMP offset
562213 – Align Tool doesn't work properly if it is the active tool
at startup

* Updated translations:

Spanish (es)
Estonian (et)
Hindi (hi)
Italian (it)
Brazilian Portuguese (pt_BR)
Romanian (ro)
Russian (ru)
Serbian (sr)
Tamil (ta)
Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)

• GIMP 2.6.5 [Windows]
• GIMP 2.6.5 [Linux]

* This hotfix resolves the following issues:
Fix for problems with DirectX and Radeon HD 3000 and HD 2000 Series AGP Graphics cards.

* Graphics Cards:
Radeon™ HD3000 series
Radeon™ HD2000 serie

* Operating System:
Windows Vista 32-bit Edition
Windows Vista 64-bit Edition
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Home Edition
Windows XP Media Center Edition
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

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VirtualBox ist für Windows, Mac OS X, Linux und Solaris verfügbar. Zu den unterstützten Gastsystemen zählen neben Windows, Linux und Solaris auch OS/2, DOS und einige BSD-Derivate.

Changelog 2.1.0 zu 2.1.2

• USB: improved support for recent Linux hosts
• VMM: fixed guru meditation for PAE guests on non-PAE hosts (AMD-V)
• VMM: fixed guru meditation on Mac OS X hosts when using VT-x
• VMM: allow running up to 1023 VMs on 64-bit hosts (used to be 127)
• VMM: several FreeBSD guest related fixes (bugs #2342, #2341, #2761)
• VMM: fixed guru meditation when installing Suse Enterprise Server 10U2 (VT-x only; bug #3039)
• VMM: fixed guru meditation when booting Novell Netware 4.11 (VT-x only; bug #2898)
• VMM: fixed VERR_ADDRESS_TOO_BIG error on some Mac OS X systems when starting a VM
• VMM: clear MSR_K6_EFER_SVME after probing for AMD-V (bug #3058)
• VMM: fixed guru meditation during Windows 7 boot with more than 2 GB guest RAM (VT-x, nested paging only)
• VMM: fixed hang during OS/2 MCP2 boot (AMD-V and VT-x only)
• VMM: fixed loop during OpenBSD 4.0 boot (VT-x only)
• VMM: fixed random crashes related to FPU/XMM with 64 bits guests on 32 bits hosts
• VMM: fixed occasional XMM state corruption with 64 bits guests
• VMM: speed improvements for real mode and protected mode without paging (software virtualization only)
• GUI: raised the RAM limit for new VMs to 75% of the host memory
• GUI: added Windows 7 as operating system type
• VBoxSDL: fixed -fixed fixedmode parameter (bug #3067)
• Clipboard: stability fixes (Linux and Solaris hosts only, bug #2675 and #3003)
• 3D support: fixed VM crashes for certain guest applications (bugs #2781, #2797, #2972, #3089)
• LsiLogic: improved support for Windows guests (still experimental)
• VGA: fixed a 2.1.0 regression where guest screen resize events were not properly handled (bug #2783)
• VGA: significant performance improvements when using VT-x/AMD-V on Mac OS X hosts
• VGA: better handling for VRAM offset changes (fixes GRUB2 and Dos DOOM display issues)
• VGA: custom VESA modes with invalid widths are now rounded up to correct ones (bug #2895)
• IDE: fixed ATAPI passthrough support (Linux hosts only; bug #2795)
• Networking: fixed kernel panics due to NULL pointer dereference in Linux kernels < 2.6.20 (Linux hosts only; bug #2827)
• Networking: fixed intermittend BSODs when using the new host interface (Windows hosts only; bugs #2832, #2937, #2929)
• Networking: fixed several issues with displaying hostif NICs in the GUI (Windows hosts only; bugs 2814, #2842)
• Networking: fixed the issue with displaying hostif NICs without assigned IP addresses (Linux hosts only; bug #2780)
• Networking: fixed the issue with sent packets coming back to internal network when using hostif (Linux hosts only; bug #3056).
• NAT: fixed port forwarding (Windows hosts only; bug #2808)
• NAT: fixed booting from the builtin TFTP server (bug #1959)
• NAT: fixed occasional crashes (bug #2709)
• SATA: vendor product data (VPD) is now configurable
• SATA: raw disk partitions were not recognized (2.1.0 regression, Windows host only, bug #2778)
• SATA: fixed timeouts in the guest when using raw VMDK files (Linux host only, bug #2796)
• SATA: huge speed up during certain I/O operations like formatting a drive
• SATA/IDE: fixed possible crash/errors during VM shutdown
• VRDP: fixed loading of libpam.so.1 from the host (Solaris hosts only)
• VRDP: fixed RDP client disconnects
• VRDP: fixed VRDP server misbehavior after a broken client connection
• VBoxManage showvminfo: fixed assertion for running VMs (bug #2773)
• VBoxManage convertfromraw: added parameter checking and made it default to creating VDI files; fixed and documented format parameter (bug #2776)
• VBoxManage clonehd: fixed garbled output image when creating VDI files (bug #2813)
• VBoxManage guestproperty: fixed property enumeration (incorrect parameters/exception)
• VHD: fixed error when attaching certain container files (bug #2768)
• Solaris hosts: added support for serial ports (bug #1849)
• Solaris hosts: fix for Japanese keyboards (bug #2847)
• Solaris hosts: 32-bit and 64-bit versions now available as a single, unified package
• Linux hosts: don’t depend on libcap1 anymore (bug #2859)
• Linux hosts: compile fixes for 2.6.29-rc1
• Linux hosts: don’t drop any capability if the VM was started by root (2.1.0 regression)
• Mac OS X hosts: save the state of running or paused VMs when the host machine’s battery reaches critical level
• Mac OS X hosts: improved window resizing of the VM window
• Mac OS X hosts: added GUI option to disable the dock icon realtime preview in the GUI to decrease the host CPU load when the guest is doing 3D
• Mac OS X hosts: polished realtime preview dock icon
• Windows Additions: fixed guest property and logging OS type detection for Windows 2008 and Windows 7 Beta
• Windows Additions: added support for Windows 7 Beta (bugs #2995, #3015)
• Windows Additions: fixed Windows 2000 guest freeze when accessing files on shared folders (bug #2764)
• Windows Additions: fixed Ctrl-Alt-Del handling when using VBoxGINA
• Windows Additions Installer: Added /extract switch to only extract (not install) the files to a directory (can be specified with /D=path)
• Linux installer and Additions: added support for the Linux From Scratch distribution (bug #1587) and recent Gentoo versions (bug #2938)
• Additions: added experimental support for X.Org Server 1.6 RC on Linux guests
• Linux Additions: fixed bug which prevented to properly set fmode on mapped shared folders (bug #1776)
• Linux Additions: fixed appending of files on shared folders (bug #1612)
• Linux Additions: ignore noauto option when mounting a shared folder (bug #2498)
• Linux Additions: fixed a driver issue preventing X11 from compiling keymaps (bug #2793 and #2905)
• X11 Additions: workaround in the mouse driver for a server crash when the driver is loaded manually (bug #2397)

• VirtualBox 2.1.2 (Windows, 32 Bit)
• VirtualBox 2.1.2 (Windows, 64 Bit)
• VirtualBox 2.1.2 (Mac OS X, Intel-CPU)
• VirtualBox 2.1.2 (Solaris/OpenSolaris)
• VirtualBox 2.1.2 für verschiedene Linuxdistributionen

-> Kommentare

Overview of Changes from GIMP 2.6.3 to GIMP 2.6.4
=================================================

* Bugs fixed:

565223 – Perspective transformation jagged edges / comb effect
563985 – jpg save dialog: "cancel" is treated like "commit"
for settings
564087 – Using clone tool on a layer with a part out of canvas
causes crashes
564593 – crash when the drawable is changed while a color tool
is active
564869 – GIMP crashes on selecting Tools->GEGL operation
565138 – python-fu-foggify does not check if image is in rgb mode
563130 – Hue selection mode does not cross the 0-360 degrees line
563179 – Scrollbars not resized when we extend the canvas size
562459 – PF_PALETTE: 'TypeError' when used in a plugin that is
registered in < Image >
562427 – Compilation with --as-needed
562386 – PF_SLIDER and PF_SPINNER 'Step' values do not change
consistently...
562366 – Default image dimensions are not correctly
transferred in the file/new dialog box
561899 – GIMP can't save to mounted filesystem if file exists

* Updated translations:

Greek (el)
Hindi (hi)
Hungarian (hu)
Italian (it)
Japanese (ja)
Korean (ko)
Slovenian (sl)
Swedish (sv)
Tamil (ta)
Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)

• GIMP 2.6.4 [Windows]
• GIMP 2.6.4 [Linux]

Mit der Version 2.1.0 führt VirtualBox unter anderem experimentellen Support für x64-Gäste auf 32-Bit-Hosts ein.

* Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts
* Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems (experimental; see user manual, chapter 1.6, 64-bit guests, page 16)
* Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and VPID; see user manual, chapter 1.2, Software vs. hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V), page 10))
* Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see user manual, chapter 4.8, Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), page 66)
* Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see user manual, chapter 5.1, Hard disk controllers: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI, page 70)
* Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see user manual, chapter 5.2, Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD), page 72)
* New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and ICMP echo (ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247)
* New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and Linux hosts with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on Windows)

Das komplette Changelog findet Ihr hier.

VirtualBox Personal steht unter der Use and Evaluation License (PUEL), die einen Gebrauch von Privatpersonen, sowie zu Testzwecken kostenfrei gestattet. Eine VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE) ist ebenfalls erhältlich, allerdings fehlen dieser einige Eigenschaften (Versionen).

Download:

• VirtualBox 2.1.0 - Windows (x86)
• VirtualBox 2.1.0 - Windows (AMD64)
• VirtualBox 2.1.0 - OS X (Intel CPU)
• VirtualBox 2.1.0 - Solaris und OpenSolaris (x86)
• VirtualBox 2.1.0 - Solaris und OpenSolaris (AMD64)
• VirtualBox 2.1.0 - Software Developer Kit (SDK)
• VirtualBox 2.1.0 für verschiedene Linuxdistributionen

Link zum Thema: VirtualBox Webseite

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Changes since Opera 9.62

Security

• Manipulating text input contents can allow execution of arbitrary code, as reported by Red XIII. See our advisory.
• HTML parsing flaw can cause Opera to execute arbitrary code, as reported by Alexios Fakos. See our advisory.
• Long hostnames in file: URLs can cause execution of arbitrary code, as reported by Vitaly McLain. see our advisory.
• Script injection in feed preview can reveal contents of unrelated news feeds, as reported by David Bloom. See our advisory.
• Built-in XSLT templates can allow cross-site scripting, as reported by Robert Swiecki of the Google Security Team. See our advisory.
• Fixed an issue that could reveal random data, as reported by Matthew of Hispasec Sistemas. Details will be disclosed at a later date.
• SVG images embedded using <img> tags can no longer execute Java or plugin content, suggested by Chris Evans.

Download:

• Opera 9.63 [Windows]
• Opera 9.63 [Linux]
• Opera 9.63 [Mac OS X]

Links zum Thema:

• Opera 9.63 - Changelog
• Opera 9 Screenshots
• Opera 9 Features

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New Features

This section provides information on new features found in this release of the
Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:

• Support for New Linux Operating Systems
• Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition: Information Center Enhancement
• ATI Stream Computing Support
• SurroundView™ support

Support for New Linux Operating Systems

This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new
operating system:

• Ubuntu 8.10 support – early look

Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition: Information
Center Enhacement

This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces enhancements to the ATI Catalyst Control Center Linux Edition – Bus bandwidth and memory bandwidth informa-
tion is now included in the Information Center.

ATI Stream Computing Support

With the release of ATI Catalyst 8.12 users can unlock the potential of accelerated
applications enabling ATI Stream technology for millions of ATI Radeon™
graphics processors worldwide

• ATI Stream computing harnesses the tremendous processing power of the
graphics processing unit (GPU) for high-performance, data-intensive compu-
tations over a wide range of scientific, business and consumer applications.
• ATI Stream technology enables the hundreds of parallel Stream cores inside
AMD graphics processors to accelerate general purpose applications. These
capabilities will allow ATI Stream-enabled programs, for a variety of different
tasks and from a growing number of software vendors, to operate with opti-
mized performance or with new functionality.

SurroundView™ support

This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux enables users to render multiple OpenGL applications across single/multiple displays.

• SurroundView™ can be enabled across a single discrete ATI Radeon™
graphics accelerator (ATI Radeon™ X1300 and higher product) and an AMD
Integrated graphics product ( ATI Radeon 1200 Series, ATI Radeon 3100
Series, ATI Radeon 3200 Series and, Radeon 3300 Series Integrated graphics)

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Download:

• ATI Catalyst 8.12 Proprietary Linux x86 Display Driver
• ATI Catalyst 8.12 Proprietary Linux x86_64 Display Driver

• Release Notes
• ATI CATALYST 8.12 Grafiktreiber für Windows

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New Features

This section provides information on new features found in this release of the
Radeon™ Display Driver. These include the following:

• ATI Stream Computing Support
• ATI Stream Application: ATI AVIVO Video Converter
• ATI Catalyst Control Center: Noise Reduction for Progressive Video Content
• Performance Improvements

ATI Stream Computing Support
With the release of ATI Catalyst 8.12 users can unlock the potential of accelerated
applications enabling ATI Stream technology for millions of ATI Radeon™
graphics processors worldwide

• ATI Stream computing harnesses the tremendous processing power of the
graphics processing unit (GPU) for high-performance, data-intensive compu-
tations over a wide range of scientific, business and consumer applications.
• ATI Stream technology enables the hundreds of parallel Stream cores inside
AMD graphics processors to accelerate general purpose applications. These
capabilities will allow ATI Stream-enabled programs, for a variety of different
tasks and from a growing number of software vendors, to operate with opti-
mized performance or with new functionality.

ATI Stream Application: ATI AVIVO Video Converter

• Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series and
ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can help accelerate the con-
version of standard and HD video into multiple formats for use on differing
consumer electronics devices

ATI Catalyst Control Center: Noise Reduction for
Progressive Video Content

• This release of Catalyst™ introduces a new advanced video quality control:
Noise Reduction for progressive video content, which removes ghosting arti-
facts while preserving details of the original video. The slider control can be
found in the All Settings page of the Avivo Video tab found in the Catalyst
Control Center

Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™

3DMark Vantage DX10 – performance gains of up to 5% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on HD46xx, HD4550 and HD4350.

Call of Duty: World at War DX9 – performance gains of up to 21% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD48xx.

Crysis DX10 – performance gains of up to 25% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx.

Crysis Warhead DX10 – performance gains of up to 13% for Single card mode and up to 16% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx.

Devil May Cry 4 DX10– performance gains of up to 6% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.

Fallout 3 – performance gains of up to 15% for Single card mode.

Far Cry 2 DX10 – performance gains of up to 10% for Single card mode and up to 57% in Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.

FEAR DX9 – performance gains of up to 6% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on Radeon HD4870X2 and HD4870.

Hellgate: London DX10 – performance gains of up to 6% for Single card mode and up to 10% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx.

Left 4 Dead DX9– performance gains of up to 10% for Single card mode and up to 5% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4870 series.

Lost Planet Colonies DX10 – performance gains of up to 10% for Single and Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.

Prey OGL – performance gains of up to 15% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on Radeon HD4870 1GB products, HD46xx, HD45xx.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky – performance gains of up to 10% for Crossfire mode. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.

Unreal Tournament 3 DX9 – performance gains of up to 18% for Single card mode and up to 15% in Crossfire mode, especially in cases where AA is enabled. Performance gains were noticed on all Radeon HD4xxx and HD38xx.

Die Download-Links führen zu den Game.AMD.com Support-Seiten, wo man die Treiberpakete einzeln (Windows XP) oder aber komplett (Windows XP & Vista) inkl. CATALYST Control Center (CCC*) beziehen kann.

Download:

• ATI Catalyst 8.12 Display Driver [Windows Vista 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 8.12 Display Driver [Windows Vista 64-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 8.12 Display Driver [Windows XP 32-Bit / MCE]
• ATI Catalyst 8.12 Display Driver [Windows XP 64-Bit]

• ATI Catalyst 8.12 Mobility [Windows XP 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 8.12 Mobility Kompatibilitätsprüfung

• ATI Catalyst 8.12 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows Vista 32-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 8.12 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows Vista 64-Bit]
• ATI Catalyst 8.12 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows XP 32-Bit / MCE]
• ATI Catalyst 8.12 Mainboard/IGP/Southbridge [Windows XP 64-Bit]

Links zum Thema:

• Release Notes


• CCC* Alternative : Ray Adams' ATI Tray Tools
• Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 SP1

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