I did not notice a big difference in the brightness between 3.14 and 4.0.
However now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure that it was an older
version of libreboot that had problems with the screen. If the brightness is
at minimum + 2, there's no problems now. At minimum it's too dark to read,
and at minimum + 1 it flickers too much.
The built-in microphone works. Still no webcam in 4.0, and all other things
seem like before, in particular Unity is still not working.
One more thing that came to my mind. For people flashing libreboot: I suggest
that before you do that you write down your ethernet and wifi MAC-address
somewhere safe, in case you want to keep these two. As I understood, if you
flash the libreboot binary, then you will have the same MAC address as
everybody who flashes that same binary. So in that sense I strongly suggest
you compile from sources according to the instructions at the libreboot
website. This is something that just popped to my mind, I could be wrong
too...