Op Kernel.org is een nieuwe Linux kernel verschenen voor de 2.6-branche. Deze volgt de derde release candidate op en bevat volgens Linus Torvalds ten opzicht van de voorgaande versie voornamelijk kleine bugfixes. Hieronder is de mail van Linus en een samenvatting van het changelog geplaatst:
Ok, the diffs from -rc3 are minimal, most noticeably the (very _very_ hard to trigger, but nasty if you ever did) fork() race that Ingo found.
I'm going to be in Australia (and on airplanes) for the week, but we're all in the capable hands of Andrew, so why worry? The fact that I'm fleeing the country should in no way be construed as anything sinister at all, no siree. Nope. I'm innocent, and nobody saw me do it.
The full changelog is getting uploaded right now along with the release, and the BK trees have already been pushed.
Up up and away,
Linus
Summary of changes from v2.6.1-rc3 to v2.6.1[break]
- [AGPGART] Duh, is_r200 is a function, not a variable
- Fix subtle fork() race that Ingo noticed
- [XFS] Add the noikeep mount option, make ikeep the default for now
- [XFS] Fix a possible bio-leak on I/O submission, in a case where no I/O was required
- [XFS] Update XFS documentation
Linux Kernel 2.6.1 Bzip2 patch
Linux Kernel 2.6.1 Tarball patch