My results for 8.0.4-MULTIMEDIA testing (on VM only):
I tested out DLNA and iTunes which both worked great. Configured Bit Torrent and it runs, not sure if it actually works though so that's up to someone else to answer.
Did some general speed transfer tests and they all seem reasonable keeping in mind it's on a VM and not my real NAS hardware. I was able to configure and make work the following: CRON Job, Most Storage functions/settings but this was an upgrade so I didn't create a new pool, did CIFS Shares, DDNS, FTP, SSH. Nothing too serious to be honest.
If there were some specific changes that need to be tested, please let us know so those could be hit pretty hard.
I hope others start reporting their success or failures so you have a feeling how this BETA2 is going.
One word of caution... zfskerntune, I don't know how much that will inject into this version of the project but if it messes with these critical settings, should it be included before RC1 is released or should it be included in the next formal release like 8.1 (or 8.2) ? I just didn't want you to take a stable product and make it unstable is all. I'm overly cautious.
-Mark