The 2.6.29 merge window closes

Linus has released 2.6.29-rc1 and closed the merge window for this development cycle. "I wanted to release -rc1 with time enough that by the time I'm on my way to LCA next weekend, we'd have an -rc2 too, and the worst fallout from -rc1 would be fixed. But I know all you nice developers have been oh-so-careful, and there won't be any fall-out, will there? I'm sure -rc1 is going to be fine." As usual, there is a lot of new stuff in this release; the changes that stand out the most, though, will be the addition of the squashfs read-only compressed filesystem, Btrfs (in a development mode), and kernel mode setting for Intel graphics hardware. See the full changelog for lots of details.

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