The 3.8 kernel is out

Linus has released the 3.8 kernel. "The release got delayed a couple of days because I was waiting for confirmation of a small patch, but hey, we could also say that it was all intentional, and that this is the special 'Presidents' Day Release'. It sounds more planned that way, no?" Some of the headline features in this release include metadata integrity checking in the xfs filesystem, the foundation for much improved NUMA scheduling, kernel memory usage accounting and associated usage limits, inline data support for small files in the ext4 filesystem, nearly complete user namespace support, and much more. See the (in-progress) KernelNewbies 3.8 page for lots of details.

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