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What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Hardware:
· 10 GigE drivers with GRO support
· FCoE support on standard NICs
· SR I/OV support
System:
· Kernel tracepoints for systemtap use
· Per process I/O accounting
· FIEMAP support
Virtualization:
· Hypervisor scalability to 192 cpus
· Additional hypervisor
· Kernel Based Virtual Machine (KVM)
