The 3.5 kernel has been released
[Posted July 21, 2012 by corbet]
Linus has
announced the release of the 3.5 kernel.
Headline features in 3.5 include
the CoDel queue management algorithm (a
piece of the solution to the bufferbloat problem),
the
seccomp filters sandboxing mechanism,
autosleep (an alternative to Android's
opportunistic suspend mechanism),
the
uprobes user-space probe subsystem,
the
contiguous memory allocator,
the new
kcmp() system call,
metadata checksumming in the ext4
filesystem,
and a lot more. See the
KernelNewbies 3.5 page
for more information, though it appears to be still under construction
as of this writing.
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