The new version boasts many new enhancements and fixes. Such as better suspend/resume for most machines with Intel/ATI video. Improved hardware support and new tools like ldapd and iked.
Looks like an awesome new release that I'm going to have to stick on a machine and give it a test drive.
CDs are available for purchase and you can download it directly from one of the mirrors:
As of Nov 1, 2010, the following ftp mirror sites have the 4.8 release:
ftp://ftp.bytemine.net/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/ Oldenburg, Germany
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/ Brisbane, Australia
ftp://ftp.wu-wien.ac.at/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/ Vienna, Austria
ftp://obsd.cec.mtu.edu/pub/OpenBSD/4.8/ Michigan, USA
