What's New in OpenBSD 4.2?

blackbearnh writes "OpenBSD 4.2 was released today, and has a host of new features. O'Reilly's ONLamp site has a pretty thorough overview of the release. 'Even though security is still there, this release comes with some amazing performance improvements: basic benchmarks showed PF being twice as fast, a rewrite of the TLB shootdown code for i386 and amd64 cut the time to do a full package build by 20 percent (mostly because all the forks in configure scripts have become much cheaper), and the improved frequency scaling on MP systems can help save nearly 20 percent of battery power. And then the new features: FFS2, support for the Advanced Host Controller Interface, IP balancing in CARP, layer 7 manipulation with hoststated, Xenocara, and more!'"

Comments

Re:Huh?

[StonedYoda47]

Don't even worry about wiki-ing it. Netcraft confirms it's dead anyway. Just forget you ever saw the thread.

Re:I need to try BSD

[Anonymous Coward]

so really that issue is mute.

You fucking worthless heap of shit. The word is "moot".

Yes, I am going to hell

[Slashcrap]

I couldn't help noticing this line in the release announcement regarding the sad death of Jun-ichiro 'itojun' Itoh Hagino :

"Without his BSD and IETF participation, IPv6 would not be where it is today." Jesus, Theo! The guy's just died! Surely you could have said something nice about him?

Re:Huh?

[joshuaobrien]

What's BSD?

Dying.