This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:
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UI: Fixed Log-Viewer search-backward icon
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Devices: Fixes and improvements for the BusLogic SCSI controller emulation
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Serial Port: Regression fixes in FIFO data handling
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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure integration: Experimental new type of network attachment, allowing local VM to act as if it was run in cloud
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API: Improved resource management in the guest control functionality
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VBoxManage: Fixed command option parsing for the "snapshot edit" sub-command
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VBoxManage: Fixed crash of 'VBoxManage internalcommands repairhd' when processing invalid input (bug #19579)
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Guest Additions, 3D: New experimental GLX graphics output
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Guest Additions, 3D: Fixed releasing texture objects, which could cause guest crashes
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Guest Additions: Fixed writes to a file on a shared folder not being reflected on the host when the file is mmap'ed and the used Linux kernel is between version 4.10.0 and 4.11.x
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Guest Additions: Fixed the shared folder driver on 32bit Windows 8 and newer returning an error when flushing writes to a file which is mapped into memory under rare circumstances
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Guest Additions: Improved resize coverage for VMSVGA graphics controller
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Guest Additions: Fixed issues detecting guest additions ISO at runtime
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Guest Additions: Fixed German translation encoding for Windows GA installer