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

• GUI: if 3D support on the host is not available for some reason, do not only disable this VM setting but also uncheck the checkbox
• VMM: fixed a potential problem causing to schedule interrupts during SYSEXIT right after STI
• VMM: fixed a potential guest memory corruption issue with page fusion
• VMM: adjusted the module matching algorithm for page fusion a little, generally resulting in slightly more shared pages
• Main: host interfaces no longer have "defaults" for IP address and network mask attributes
• Main: don't depend on a password for certain guest control operations (bug #10030)
• 3D Support: fixed Windows XP hosts support (4.1.8 regression; bugs #10071 and #10088)
• 3D Support: rendering fixes for Linux hosts with NVIDIA graphics
• 3D Support: fixed saved state issues (4.1.8 regression; bug #10126)
• 3D Support: WDDM driver: fixed powershell_ise crashes (bug #10167), make WPF-based apps work with Aero enabled, fixed additional possible WinSAT crashes
• VRDP: fixed remote clipboard compatibility issues with some clients
• Storage: fixed a possible data corruption when compacting VDI or VHD images with snapshots (32-bit hosts only)
• iSCSI: fixed crash when using incorrect credentials when authenticating with a LIO target (bug #10173)
• Serial: don't abort in host mode under rare error conditions (non-Windows hosts only)
• SDK: actually ship current C bindings
• SDK: fixed the Java glue code for JDK 1.7.0 (bug #9848)
• SDK: added Python example
• Metrics: make metrics collection more robust regarding blocked VMs
• Web service: added SSL/TLS support
• VBoxShell: fixed Guest Additions information lookup
• Solaris installer: fixed dependency checking while installing VirtualBox in a zone
• Linux hosts/guests: Linux 3.3-rc1 compile fixes
• Solaris hosts: fixed debug kernel panics while opening module CTF data (bug #9651)
• Mac OS X hosts: fixed Python support on Lion
• Linux Additions: make 3D passthrough work on OL/RHEL 6.2 (bug #10010)
• Linux Additions: fixed missing implementation when copying shared folder data through kernel high memory (bug #9878)
• Linux Additions: make sure all data is written when closing a memory mapped file on a shared folder
• Linux Additions: added support for X.Org Server 1.12
• Solaris Additions: fixed guest kernel driver to load properly on guest reboot (4.1.8 regression; bug #10113)
• Solaris Additions: fixed missing 64-bit OpenGL library VBoxOGL.so (bug #10151)
• Solaris Additions: fixed VBoxService import and start for Solaris 11 guests.
• Windows Additions: some Windows 8 adaptions
• Windows Additions: several fixes for shared folders (bug #9753)
• Guest control: miscellaneous bugfixes