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VirtualBox 3.0.12 has been released for all platforms. 3.0.12 is a maintenance release.

Changes in VirtualBox 3.0.12 include

VMM: reduced IO-APIC overhead for 32 bits Windows NT/2000/XP/2003 guests; requires 64 bits support (VT-x only)
VMM: fixed double timer interrupt delivery on old Linux kernels using IO-APIC (caused guest time to run at double speed)
VMM: reinitialize VT-x and AMD-V after host suspend or hibernate; some BIOSes forget this (Windows hosts only)
VMM: fix loading of saved state when RAM preallocation is enabled
BIOS: ignore unknown shutdown codes instead of causing a guru meditation
GUI: never start a VM on a single click into the selector window
Serial: reduce the probability of lost bytes if the host end is connected to a raw file
VMDK: fix handling of split image variants and fix a 3.0.10 regression
VRDP: fixed occasional VRDP server crash
Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, some guests were able to send / receive packets (E1000)
Network: even if the virtual network cable was disconnected, the PCNet card received some spurious packets which might confuse the guest
Shared folders: fixed changing case of file names
Windows Additions: fix crash in seamless mode
Linux Additions: fix writing to files opened in O_APPEND mode
Solaris Additions: fix regression in guest additions driver which among other things caused lost guest property updates and periodic error messages being written to the system log

For a complete list of the changes in this release, please take a look at the VirtualBox Changelog.

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