What is new in OpenBSD 4.8?
The complete list of changes made to OpenBSD 4.7 to create OpenBSD 4.8 can be found on plus48.html, and highlights on the OpenBSD 4.8 Information page, however here are a few changes the OpenBSD team anticipate will require or warrant some special note to people upgrading or installing OpenBSD 4.8 who are familiar with older versions: • GCC4 The amd64, hppa, i386, macppc, sparc64 and socppc platforms now build using gcc4 • Suspend/resume ACPI-based suspend/resume works on most machines with Intel or ATI video! • diskmap(4) interface People using USB attached storage or softraid(4) configurations often had difficulty with drive identifiers changing from boot to boot, or between hardware configurations. diskmap(4) allows you to mount drives by unique disklabel UIDs rather than how they are attached, so now you can use the same /etc/fstab on your USB flash disk without worrying whether it would come up as sd0, sd1, sd2, etc. • Default install method changed from FTP to HTTP Of course, bot
