The 3.15 kernel is out
The 3.15 kernel is out
Linus has released the 3.15 kernel after one week of overlapping development with the 3.16 merge window. Headline features in 3.15 include some significant memory management improvements, the renameat2() system call, file-private POSIX locks, a new device mapper target called dm-era, faster resume from suspend, and more.
Linus also noted that, while overlapping the 3.16 merge window with the
final 3.15 stabilization worked well enough, he is not necessarily inclined
to do it every time. "I also don't think it was such a wonderful experience that
I'd want to necessarily do the overlap every time, without a good
specific reason for doing so. It was kind of nice being productive
during the last week or rc (which is usually quite boring and dead),
but I think it might be a distraction when people should be worrying
about the stability of the rc.
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