DragonFly 4.0 released!

[Markus Pfeiffer]

On 26 November 2014 03:09:53 GMT+00:00, bycn82 <bycn82 at gmail.com> wrote:
>*thanks for the hard work, well done! the lagg is really what I want
>:)*
>

note that lagg has a couple of issues at the moment which I am addressing for the next release. In particular you might see panics if you setup a lagg in rc.conf due to a bug in ipv6, and performance might not be stellar due to locking.
please let me know though if you're using it with success.

cheers,
markus

>*By the way, in the "Packet Filter" section,*
>*The pf firewall is now able to work in a concurrent manner on many
>CPUs.*
>*But what does it mean? Anyone can help to explain this? what is the
>benefit to have a PF which can concurrently manner on multiple CPUs?
>thanks
>in advanced. It interested me.*
>
>*And also the LWKT is interesting for me, I am new here :)*
>
>*Regards,*
>*bycn82*
>
>
>
>On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Justin Sherrill
><justin at shiningsilence.com
>> wrote:
>
>> DragonFly 4.0 has been released, and should be available at your
>nearest
>> mirror.
>>
>> Release page: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release40/
>>
>> Download page: http://www.dragonflybsd.org/download/
>>
>> There's no 32-bit version for this release; support for it is being
>> dropped.  This should affect a very small number of systems, as
>64-bit
>> processors are plentiful now.
>>
>> The release page has the details, but this release will be especially
>> useful for anyone with radeon/i915 chipsets.  Those users will now
>enjoy
>> hardware video acceleration and 3D support.
>>


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