Just a few hours ago, the availability of the new version of VirtualBox has been announced, specifically version 5.1.6, a maintenance update for this program to create virtual machines.
Even though it's a maintenance update, has a very important novelty. This novelty is that VirtualBox 5.1.6 is compatible with the future Kernel 4.8, which has very little left to come out (it is already in the sixth candidate version).
In addition to adding that future kernel support, bugs detected in the previous version have been corrected, something that is common in this type of maintenance updates. One of these bugs that have been fixed was a bug with the packages with the rpm extension, which was not correctly linked with the documentation of the program.
In addition, the vboxdrv.sh script has been optimized, something that has been done in order to improve security in linux kernel. An error related to guest additions, a program that is installed in virtual machines and that helps to have a better user experience, has also been fixed.
Finally other aspects of virtualization have been improved, such as NVMe support, the correction of a bug that wasting too much disk space and an improvement in the graphical user interface.
Without a doubt some changes that will further improve the experience of using VirtualBox. The best of all is the compatibility with Kernel 4.8, since it is just around the corner and surely many people install it almost as soon as they leave. In this way, people who have the kernel updated to the latest version can also have the latest version of VirtualBox.
If you want to download the latest version of VirtualBox on your operating system, you have two options. The first option is to use your repository / download manager to find it and the second option is through this link, in which we can find the ideal version of VirtualBox for your distribution.