Linus Torvalds heeft Linux-kernel 2.6.29 aangekondigd. De nieuwe versie is vanaf deze mirrorserver te downloaden en wordt met een flink aantal verbeteringen en vernieuwingen geleverd, waaronder Tuz die deze release tijdelijk Tux vervangt. Volgens Torvalds is de 2.6.29-kernel voorzien van vernieuwde stuurprogramma's voor onder meer wifi, netwerken en tracing. De website Kernelnewbies heeft een uitgebreider changelog online gezet, met daarin precies omschreven welke en wat voor vernieuwingen in de nieuwe kernel zijn doorgevoerd. De aankondiging van Torvalds is als volgt:
It's out there now, or at least in the process of getting mirrored out.
The most obvious change is the (temporary) change of logo to Tuz, the Tasmanian Devil. But there's a number of driver updates and some m68k header updates (fixing headers_install after the merge of non-MMU/MMU) that end up being pretty noticeable in the diffs.
The shortlog (from -rc8, obviously - the full logs from 2.6.28 are too big to even contemplate attaching here) is appended, and most of the non-logo changes really shouldn't be all that noticeable to most people. Nothing really exciting, although I admit to fleetingly considering another -rc series just because the changes are bigger than I would have wished for this late in the game. But there was little point in holding off the real release any longer, I feel.
This obviously starts the merge window for 2.6.30, although as usual, I'll probably wait a day or two before I start actively merging. I do that in order to hopefully result in people testing the final plain 2.6.29 a bit more before all the crazy changes start up again.
Linus