VirtualBox 3.1.8 (released 2010-05-10)

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

VMM: fixed crash with the OpenSUSE 11.3 milestone kernel during early boot (software virtualization only; bug #5457) 
VMM: fixed invalid state during teleportation 
VMM: fixed OS/2 guest crash with nested paging enabled 
VMM: fixed massive display performance loss (AMD-V with nested paging only) 
GUI: fixed off-by-one bug when passing absolute mouse coordinates to the guest (3.1.6 regression) 
GUI: show the real version of the Guest Additions, not the interface version 
GUI: when adding a DVD or floppy slot in the VM mass storage settings dialog, don't attach a random medium but just leave the slot empty 
GUI: added --seamless and --fullscreen command line switches (bug #4220) 
GUI: fixed a SEGFAULT under rare circumstances 
2D Video acceleration: fixed display issues when working with non 32-bit modes (bugs #6094 & #6208) 
LsiLogic: Fixed detection of hard disks attached to port 0 when using the drivers from LSI 
ATA: Fixed sporadic crash with Linux guests when having a hard disk and DVD drive on the same channel (bug #6079) 
Network: allow to start a VM even if not all network adapters are attached 
Network: promiscuous mode support for e1000 and simparavirtualized adapters (bug #6519) 
NAT: fixed ICMP latency (non-Windows hosts only; bug #6427) 
SCSI: fixed guest crashes under certain circumstances when booting from SCSI devices 
VBoxManage: fixed modifyvm --natnet default 
Solaris Hosts: fixed a kernel panic when bridged networking might fail to initialize 
Solaris Hosts: fixed priority tagged VLAN packets in bridged networking 
Shared folders: fixed issue with copying read-only files (Linux guests only; bug #4890) 
Shared folders: renamed the guest kernel module from vboxvfs to vboxsf to make it load on demand by the Linux kernel. Fixes mounting from /etc/fstab in Ubuntu 10.04 
Shared folders: fixed setuid file permissions (Solaris guests only). 
Shared folders: fixed deleting directories recursively (Solaris guests only; bug #6513) 
Guest Additions: support seamless and dynamic resizing on certain older X11 guests (bug #5840) 
Solaris Additions: fixed OpenGL library dependencies (bug #6435) 
Keyboard/Mouse emulation: fixed handling of simultaneous mouse/keyboard events under certain circumstances (bug #5375) 
Mouse emulation: never switch straight back from Explorer to IntelliMouse mode as it confuses the FreeBSD mouse driver (bug #6488) 
SDK: fixed memory leak in IDisplay::takeScreenShotSlow() (bug #6549) 
3D support: fixed Final frame of Compiz animation not updated to the screen (Mac OS X only) (bug #4653) 
VRDP: allow to bind to localhost only on Mac OS X (bug #5227) 
Linux hosts: add host USB support for Ubuntu 10.04 and other hosts without the hal daemon or usbfs (bug #6343) 
webservice: more structs and array fixes in PHP bindings (bug #5657) 
Windows hosts: make the bridged networking driver notify dll be correctly unregistred on uninstall (bug #5780)