Hi,
OFED 1.4 beta release is available on
http://www.openfabrics.org/downloads/OFED/ofed-1.4/OFED-1.4-beta1.tgz
md5sum: 40fb1d0d72943203f9c112c05143f2da

To get BUILD_ID run ofed_info

Please report any issues in bugzilla https://bugs.openfabrics.org/ for OFED 1.4

(You may get this email twice, I didn't see the first email on the list).

- Vladimir


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Release information:
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Linux Operating Systems:
       - RedHat EL4 up5:       2.6.9-55.ELsmp
       - RedHat EL4 up6:       2.6.9-67.ELsmp
       - RedHat EL4 up7:       2.6.9-78.ELsmp
       - RedHat EL5:           2.6.18-8.el5
       - RedHat EL5 up1:       2.6.18-53.el5
       - RedHat EL5 up2:       2.6.18-92.el5
       - CentOS 5.2:           2.6.18-92.el5
       - Fedora C9:            2.6.25-14.fc9       *
       - SLES10:               2.6.16.21-0.8-smp
       - SLES10 SP1:           2.6.16.46-0.12-smp
       - SLES10 SP1 up1:       2.6.16.53-0.16-smp
       - SLES10 SP2:           2.6.16.60-0.21-smp
       - OpenSuSE 10.3:        2.6.22.5-31         *
       - kernel.org:           2.6.26

     * OSes that are partially tested

Systems:
       * x86_64
       * x86
       * ia64
       * ppc64


Main Changes from OFED 1.3
==========================
   1. General changes
       o Kernel code based on 2.6.27-rc3
          - New verbs to support BMME (Fast memory thru send queue, Local 
invalidate send work requests,
            Read with invalidate.
       o Added iSER target package
       o Added NFS-RDMA support (for 2.6.26 only for now)
   2. IPoIB
       o LRO support
   3. SDP
       o Bug fixes in the state machine and close flow
   4. qlgc_vnic
       o Support for hotswap of EVIC and dynamic update of existing connections
         with the addition of QLogic dynamic update daemon.
       o Performance improvements in handling of Ethernetbroadcast/multicast
         traffic.
   5. RDS
       o GA of RDMA API (using FMRs) - RDS API version 3
       o iWARP support
   6. uDAPL
       o Added socket based CM - for both scalability and interop with Windows
       o Added UD extensions - for version 2.0 only
       o v1 library package has been renamed to compat-dapl-1.2.8-1
   7. Management
       o OpenSM
         - APM - disjoint paths
         - Path balancing for LMC + console diagnostics
         - OpenSM configuration unification
         - MGID to MLID mapping for IPv6 SNM
         - Routing engines chain
         - IBA 1.2.1 additions
         - Failover/Handover improvements
       o ibutils:
         - Congestion Control
         - Report created in CSV format
       o Diagnostic tools:
         - ibnetdiscover library - to accelerate another tools
   8. Low level drivers:
       o mlx4: Enable Virtual Protocol Interconnect - Eth and IB on the same 
device
       o mlx4_en: Mellanox ConnectX HCA Ethernet driver
   9. New MPI:
       o MVAPICH 1.1

Tasks that should be completed for the rc:
============================================
1. NFS-RDMA to work on distro OSes
2. iSER backports
3. New MPI versions: OpenMPI 1.3, MVAPICH2 1.2
4. OSM: Cashed routing


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