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Kernel 2.4.27 released
Marcelo has announced the availability of
the 2.4.27 kernel. 2.4.27 contains fixes for a handful of security
problems, some new crypto algorithms, a big serial
ATA update, a TCP Vegas and BIC backports from 2.6, and vast numbers of
fixes.
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Kernel 2.4.27 released Posted Aug 8, 2004 18:41 UTC (Sun) by jwb (guest, #15467) [Link] I wonder if I'm the only Linux user who finds the long-form changelog useless. Compare the Linux 2.2 series, who's ChangeLog contains a summary of major changes as well as a detailed list by subject matter, or the early Linux 2.4 series that listed major user-visible changes in plain language.By comparison, the important user-visible changes to the Marcelo-era kernels are buried in a haystack of "[NET]: Check __dev_get_by_name() return value in eql.c", which is bad enough by itself, but they are also sorted by author instead of subject matter, making them impossible to browse. I guess the ChangeLog is targetted to developers instead of users nowadays. Users need to rely on sites like LWN and Kernel Traffic to get the skinny on new releases.
Kernel 2.4.27 released Posted Aug 9, 2004 0:13 UTC (Mon) by marcelotosatti (subscriber, #19851) [Link] You are right, I should make a resume of the most important changes.
On the other hand, with the current changelog scheme, you can see in the detail the changelog entries.
Kernel 2.4.27 released Posted Aug 9, 2004 0:15 UTC (Mon) by marcelotosatti (subscriber, #19851) [Link] I'll make sure to make a resume of each -pre in a more meaningful way, so I can group that when -final is released.
Note that we should not have many v2.4 release's comming next anyway...
Kernel 2.4.27 released Posted Aug 9, 2004 0:20 UTC (Mon) by marcelotosatti (subscriber, #19851) [Link] Another thing is, v2.6 should also have a nice resume of the changes, and itcurrently doesnt. v2.6 mainline and -mm (which is even more developer targetted changelogs than mainline).
Kernel 2.4.27 released Posted Aug 9, 2004 21:44 UTC (Mon) by dlapine (subscriber, #7358) [Link] Same here. A summary helps me explain to my bosses why we need this update.
We appreciate your work.
Kernel 2.4.27 released Posted Aug 9, 2004 4:11 UTC (Mon) by sjj (guest, #2020) [Link] Nice. I for one would appreciate the summaries, since I don't follow the development *that* closely (I'm a sysadmin, not a kernel hacker). Thanks for your work!
Changelogs Posted Aug 9, 2004 4:02 UTC (Mon) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] I believe the 2.4 changelogs changed when Marcelo switched to usingbitkeeper and the scripts for automatically pulling a changelog out of that.
Kernel 2.4.27 released Posted Aug 8, 2004 21:45 UTC (Sun) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link] Which DVD-RW support? The one reverted in -rc5? I recall a LWN notice about it (the removal) as well, which stated it would be back for 2.4.28...
DVD-rw Posted Aug 8, 2004 23:28 UTC (Sun) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] > The one reverted in -rc5?Um, yeah, that one. I guess I'll take that out of the article...
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