Release 4.0.1-28-GA
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Release date: 2025-03-21

This is the initial release of NSC version 4.0. It contains a large number of
changes to the platform over release 3.0.21. These changes will allow for future development 
and more rapid response to security vulnerabilities.

Major changes
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* Base distribution is now based upon Rocky 8.9 with kernel version 4.18.0-513.5.1.el8_9.x86_64
* Updated PHP 8.2
* Updated MariaDB 10.3.39
* Snort 3.1.56
* Python 3.6

Limitations:
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1) High Availability not available.
2) TDM support not available.
3) IPv6 support not available.
4) Direct upgrade from NSC-3.0 not available. 
      Please use configure backup restore from NSC-3.0 -> NSC 4.0