Here’s what’s new in Oracle VirtualBox 5.0 Beta 1 This release introduces a great number of new features, as well as many bugfixes. Oracle, through Frank Mehnert, had the pleasure of informing users that they’ve opened the development cycle for the next major release of their powerful VirtualBox virtualization software for Linux, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.Ī first Beta release of the upcoming and highly anticipated Oracle VirtualBox 5.0 is now available for download and testing (see download links at the end of the article for supported platforms).