[Bcc''ing other mailing lists.] The crossbow team is excited to announce the availability of the project''s new Beta release. SPARC-based and x86-based bfu archives of snv_81 as well as DVD iso images and draft man pages are ready for download from http://opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/snapshots/ Many new features, bug fixes, and performance improvements are included in this release. For details, see What''s Hot and What''s New in http://opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/CrossbowBeta/ This release is also bundled with a new Web-based administration tool from the Virtual Networking Machine http://opensolaris.org/os/project/vnm/ New and enhanced examples and use cases are described in http://opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/Docs/getting-started/ Additionally, we included a workshop that allows users to configure real network and routers, debug connectivity and do bottleneck analysis without needing a real network using Crossbow technology. See http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/Docs/Crossbow_Workshop.pdf and the recent blog entries from Crossbow team members: http://opensolaris.org/os/project/crossbow/blogs/ We are looking forward to your comments and feedback sent to crossbow-discuss@opensolaris.org