The 3.9 kernel is out

Linus has announced the release of the 3.9 kernel. "Anyway. Whatever the reason, this week has been very quiet, which makes me much more comfortable doing the final 3.9 release, so I guess the last -rc8 ended up working. Because not only aren't there very many commits here, even the ones that made it really are tiny and not pretty obscure and not very interesting." Headline features in 3.9 include KVM virtualization on the ARM architecture, the near-completion of user namespace support, PowerClamp support, the dm-cache device mapper target, RAID5/6 support in the Btrfs filesystem, and more. The KernelNewbies 3.9 page will have details eventually, but is very much a work in progress as of this writing.

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