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Kernel release status
The 3.8 kernel was released on February 18; Linus said: "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 KernelNewbies 3.8 page for
lots of details.
Stable updates: 3.7.8, 3.4.31, and 3.0.64 were released on February 14, 3.7.9, 3.4.32, and 3.0.65 were released on February 17, and 3.2.39 came out on February 20. (Log in to post comments)
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