This is a maintenance release. The following items were fixed and/or added:

* VMM: fixed rare host crash when running 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts (bug #7577)
* VMM: fixed host reboots under rare circumstances due to NMIs triggered by active performance counters (Linux hosts in non-VT-x/AMD-V mode only; bug #4529)
* VMM: fixed out of memory guru meditation for large memory guests (bug #7586)
* VMM: fixed a guru meditation related to large pages
* VMM: use new VT-x feature to keep the guest from hogging the CPU
* Snapshots: implemented deleting the last remaining snapshot while the VM is running
* GUI: perform the checks for exceeding the size limit of the host file system and for broken asynchronous I/O on older Linux kernels with ext4 / xfs file systems not only when starting the VM from scratch but also when starting from a saved state
* NAT: fixed memory leak (3.2.0 regression; bugs #6918, #7353)
* Networking: fixed VM reset handling in e1000
* VRDP: fixed rare crash in multimonitor configuration
* Display: fixed occasional guest resize crash
* Mouse: don't send relative mouse events together with absolute mouse events (3.2.10 regression; bug #7571)
* Keyboard: fixes for the USB keyboard emulation; fixes for Koran keyboards
* Serial: don't hang if the host device would block during open (bugs #5756, #5380)
* Serial: fixed modem status lines (Linux hosts only; bug #812)
* Graphics: Horizontal resolutions are no longer restricted to a multiple of 8 pixels (bug #2047; requires Guest Additions update).
* USB: fixed a crash with older Linux kernels and non-ASCII characters in device strings (Linux hosts only; bug #6983, #7158, #7733; version 3.2.8 contained an incomplete fix)
* USB: fixed a crash under rare circumstances (bug #7409; Windows hosts only)
* iSCSI: respond to NOP-In requests from the target immediately to avoid being disconnected if the guest is idle
* 3D support: fixed a crash under certain circumstances (bug #7659)
* 3D support: fixed crashes for GLUT based apps (bug #6848)
* 3D support: added missing GLX 1.3 functionality (bugs #7652, #7195)
* 2D Video acceleration: fixed potential deadlock when saving the VM state (bug #4124)
* Windows hosts: another fix for BSODs under certain circumstances in VBoxNetFlt.sys (bug #7601)
* Solaris hosts: fixed host USB DVD drive detection
* Mac OS X hosts: fixed swapped keys for certain ISO keyboard types (bug #2996)
* Linux hosts: added link state handling for TAP devices needed for proper operation with bridged networking on kernels 2.6.36 and above (bug #7649)
* Linux hosts/guests: Linux 2.6.37 fixes
* Linux Additions: properly compile the vboxvideo module if DKMS is not installed (bug #7572)
* Linux Additions: fixed a memory leak when accessing non-existing files on a Shared Folders (bug #7705)
* Windows Additions: skip none-mapped user accounts when enumerating user accounts for VM information

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 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). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.

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, Windows 7), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), Solaris and OpenSolaris, and OpenBSD.

VirtualBox is being actively developed with frequent releases and has an ever growing list of features, supported guest operating systems and platforms it runs on. VirtualBox is a community effort backed by a dedicated company: everyone is encouraged to contribute while Sun ensures the product always meets professional quality criteria.

VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware. Targeted at server, desktop and embedded use, it is now the only professional-quality virtualization solution that is also Open Source Software.

Some of the features of VirtualBox are:
* Modularity. VirtualBox has an extremely modular design with well-defined internal programming interfaces and a client/server design. This makes it easy to control it from several interfaces at once: for example, you can start a virtual machine in a typical virtual machine GUI and then control that machine from the command line, or possibly remotely. VirtualBox also comes with a full Software Development Kit: even though it is Open Source Software, you don't have to hack the source to write a new interface for VirtualBox.
* Virtual machine descriptions in XML. The configuration settings of virtual machines are stored entirely in XML and are independent of the local machines. Virtual machine definitions can therefore easily be ported to other computers.
* Guest Additions for Windows and Linux. VirtualBox has special software that can be installed inside Windows and Linux virtual machines to improve performance and make integration much more seamless. Among the features provided by these Guest Additions are mouse pointer integration and arbitrary screen solutions (e.g. by resizing the guest window).
* Shared folders. Like many other virtualization solutions, for easy data exchange between hosts and guests, VirtualBox allows for declaring certain host directories as "shared folders", which can then be accessed from within virtual machines.
A number of extra features:
* Virtual USB Controllers. VirtualBox implements a virtual USB controller and allows you to connect arbitrary USB devices to your virtual machines without having to install device specific drivers on the host.
* Remote Desktop Protocol. Unlike any other virtualization software, VirtualBox fully supports the standard Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). A virtual machine can act as an RDP server, allowing you to "run" the virtual machine remotely on some thin client that merely displays the RDP data.
* USB over RDP. With this unique feature, a virtual machine that acts as an RDP server can still access arbitrary USB devices that are connected on the RDP client. This way, a powerful server machine can virtualize a lot of thin clients that merely need to display RDP data and have USB devices plugged in.

* Visual Studio .NET 2003 or Visual Studio 2005 with service pack 1.

* Windows Platform SDK coming with Visual C++ or a more recent one from:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=484269E2-3B89-47E3-8EB7-1F2BE6D7123A&displaylang=en
Please note, that the Windows Platform SDK 2008 is not officially supported yet!

* Windows Driver Development Kit (Win2k3 SP1 or later, but not the new Vista WDK):
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/devtools/ddk/default.mspx

* DirectX SDK:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d625324c-59b4-4951-849e-640b508dc442&DisplayLang=en

* MingW:
GCC 3.3.1: http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-core-3.3.1-20030804-1.tar.gz?download
and http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/gcc-g++-3.3.1-20030804-1.tar.gz?download
Runtime: http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/mingw-runtime-3.8.tar.gz?download
W32API: http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/w32api-3.5.tar.gz?download
Binutils: http://prdownloads.sf.net/mingw/binutils-2.13.90-20021006-2.tar.gz?download
Note that neither GCC v3.4.2 nor v3.4.5 is currently able to build a working recompiler. So, make sure you are using the 3.3.x versions!

* SDL v1.2.7 or later development package (VC6):
http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php

* (VirtualBox = 1.6) libxml2 and libxslt1 libraries. Sources and 32bit binaries can be downloaded from:
http://xmlsoft.org/downloads.html
http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/downloads.html

* the zlib library. Grab the sources from:
http://www.zlib.net/

* the cURL library. Grab the binaries from:
http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
(use the devel version without SSL support)

* OpenSSL 0.9.8k. Grab the binaries from:
http://www.openssl.org/related/binaries.html