VirtualBox 5.1.28 is now available for download

Oracle has released VirtualBox 5.1 Maintenance Release 28 (Version 5.1.28 Build 117968) for Windows, Mac, Linux and Solaris. This release includes a number of improvements and bug fixes from Oracle VM VirtualBox 5.1. The following issues were fixed:
  • GUI: mouse events did not reach host windows behind the transparent VM window (Mac OS X hosts only).
  • Audio: different fixes related to accidental crash with AC'97, or if default input/output devices have change.
  • Audio: fixed recording when using the ALSA backend.
  • Audio: fixed handle leak when using the OSS backend.
  • Mac OS X hosts: fixed a GUI crash if Spotlight is used from file dialogs (5.1.20 regression).
  • Linux hosts: fixed creating fixed sized VDI images.
  • Linux Additions: kernel drm driver support for custom EL7 Linux 3.10 kernel.
  • Solaris Additions: hide an informational message on the bootup console.

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.

What's new in VirtualBox 5.1?
VirtualBox 5.1 is the latest release of the world’s most popular free and open source, cross-platform virtualization software. This release supports the latest guest or host operating systems including: Mac OS X Yosemite, Windows 10, Oracle Linux, Oracle Solaris, other Linux operating systems, and legacy operating systems.

Here are highlight new features of VirtualBox 5.1:
  • Improved Performance: Significantly improved performance for multi-CPU virtual machines and networking.
  • Bug Reporting Tool: New utility able to collect all the information and logs related to the host and guest operating system, for debug or analysis purposes.
  • Improved Logging Window: New logging functionalities to highlight and filter information related to guest Virtual Machines.
  • Improved multimedia availability: Improved support for different USB devices and multi-channel audio availability.
  • Flash storage emulation: New NVMHCI storage controller emulation available, able to emulate NVME devices - Flash storage - on guest Virtual Machine.
  • Improved Linux integration: Automatic modules deployment in case of a Linux Kernel upgrade and improved systemd integration for the latest releases of popular Linux distributions.

Download VirtualBox 5.1.28 Build 117968
VirtualBox is available for download from VirtualBox Download Center. Download the files appropriate for you.

What's new in VirtualBox 5.1.28 Build 117968?
This release includes a number of stability improvements and bug fixes. See all the details here with a complete list of bug fixes.

References:
Changelog for VirtualBox 5.1.28
Oracle's Virtualization Blog

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