VirtualBox 5.0.22 build 108108 is now available for download

Oracle has released VirtualBox 5.0 Maintenance Release 22 (Version 5.0.22 Build 108108) for Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris. This release is a major improvement which include a large number of improvements and bug fixes.

Overview
Oracle VM VirtualBox (aka VirtualBox) is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista, 7, Windows 8/8.1, and Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6 and 3.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.

VirtualBox now officially supported Windows 10 RTM as guest and host platform and MAC OS X 10.11 El-Capitan as host platform. More information about VirtualBox 5.0 available here.

Download VirtualBox 5.0.22 Build 108108
VirtualBox is available for download from VirtualBox Download Center. Download the files appropriate for you.

What's new in VirtualBox 5.0.22 Build 108108?
This release contains a number of stability improvements and bug fixes. Here are important bug fixes in this release:
  • VMM: properly restore the complete FPU state for 32-bit guests on 64-bit hosts on Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge CPUs
  • Guest Additions: fixes for Kernel 4.7
  • Windows Hosts: fixed performance regression with SMP guests

For a full details, please review the Changelog for VirtualBox 5.0.22.

VirtualBox 5.1 Beta is also available
VirtualBox 5.1 will be a new minor release. Here are highlights of changes in version 5.1:
  • VMM: new APIC and I/O APIC implementations that result in significantly improved performance in certain situations (for example with networking, bug #15295)
  • VMM: added support for Hyper-V paravirtualized debugging of Windows guests
  • VMM: emulate even more MMIO and shadow pagetable exits without going back to user mode
  • GUI: overall migration to Qt5
  • GUI: passive API event listener improving the VM GUI performance and response time
  • better support for Python 3
For a full list of of enhancements, bug fixes and links to download the latest VirtualBox 5.1 Beta, please visit Oracle's Virtualization Blog.

Reference:
Oracle's Virtualization Blog

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