Vanmorgen heeft Linus Torvalds de derde testversie uitgebracht van kernel 2.6.0 voor Linux. Deze release wordt gekenmerkt door een betere werking van op Arm, Alpha, H8300 and IA64 gebaseerde systemen. Degene die gebruik maken van een x86-processor kunnen zich verheugen op verbeterde netwerk- en USB-drivers. Daarnaast is de PCMCIA lockup-bug opgelost die sinds kernel 2.5.71 aanwezig was. De samenvatting van het changelog is op deze pagina te lezen. Torvalds laat het volgende weten:
The bulk of the diff by far is various architecture updates, and in
particular bringing MIPS[64] a bit closer to being up-to-date for 2.6.x
But there's arm, alpha, h8300 and ia64 updates too.
Merging the SELinux security architecture also ends up growing the patch,
even though it may not be all that noticeable for most normal users.
For most x86 users, the CPU frequency updates, network driver updates, and
some USB updates are most likely to matter.
And this should fix the PCMCIA lock-up that a number of people have seen
happening since 2.5.71 or so. Thanks for people involved in testing and
fixing that one.
Also, Andrew fixed a read-ahead bug that was introduced in test2 that
could cause (non-readahead) IO failures under load.
Shortlog follows, full details in the BK trees and in the log on the
ftp/web sites.
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