Op de Linux Kernel Mailing List heeft Linus Torvalds weer een nieuwe Linux 2.6-kernel aangekondigd. De kernel is ditmaal aangekomen bij versienummer 2.6.26 en bevat de nodige verbeteringen ten opzichte van de vorige uitgave. Zoals gewoonlijk hebben de Kernel Newbies de veranderingen weer keurig op een rijtje gezet, die op deze pagina na te lezen zijn. Ondersteuning voor onder andere x86 pat, een kernel-debugger en kvm op ia64, s390 en ppc is toegevoegd. De beknopte aankondiging van Torvalds ziet er als volgt uit:
Linux 2.6.26
So it's been almost three months since 2.6.25 (87 days to be exact, I think), making this a longer-than-usual release cycle. Or maybe it just feels that way, and we're always getting close to three months these days.
But it's out there now. Or rather, the git tree is out there, and the patch/tar-ball is still uploading as I write this.
The diffs from -rc9 are pretty small, with with the bulk actually being Documentation updates (almost 80% is just added docs). The rest tensd to be one-liners for some regressions or otherwise pretty small patches.
Several regressions did get fixed in the last few days, thanks to everybody involved.
dirstat since -rc9:3.3% Documentation/networking/
and dirstat for the whole release since 2.6.25 (yeah, Documentation doesn't even show up in the latter :^):
78.5% Documentation/
2.5% arch/
2.4% drivers/net/wireless/
4.0% drivers/net/
2.0% drivers/usb/host/
2.1% drivers/usb/
9.4% drivers/
2.0% fs/
3.6% net/4.9% arch/arm/
Have fun,
9.0% arch/powerpc/configs/
11.8% arch/powerpc/
28.7% arch/
5.0% drivers/media/video/
9.2% drivers/media/
5.5% drivers/net/sk98lin/
6.6% drivers/net/wireless/
17.8% drivers/net/
4.8% drivers/s390/net/
5.3% drivers/s390/
49.7% drivers/
6.4% include/
5.1% net/
Linus