The 2.6.18 stable kernel is out
The 2.6.18 stable kernel is out
At long last, Linus ("but you can call me Cap'n
") has released the 2.6.18 stable kernel. Do read
the announcement; it appears to have some changelog entries which did not
come directly from git.
There is a
vast amount of new stuff in this release, including priority-inheriting futexes, a
new generic interrupt handling
layer, a new core time
subsystem, the kernel locking
validator, the SMPnice
work, a bunch of virtual memory work, a huge serial ATA update, the removal
of devfs, and much more. See the KernelNewbies LinuxChanges
page for a much more detailed list, the LWN 2.6 kernel API changes page for
information on internal programming interface changes, or the
long-format changelog for thousands of patches' worth of detail.