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Kernels 2.6.8, 2.6.8.1 released
Linus has announced the availability of the
2.6.8 allegedly stable kernel. Unfortunately, a "brown paper bag" problem
turned up in the NFS code, and 2.6.8.1 was rushed out to fix it. This
would be the first time that the kernel has used a four-number version.
Changes since -rc4 include the "Khazad" crypto algorithm, some added
permissions checking on raw SCSI commands from user space, and the removal
of the fcntl() file operations method. For those just tuning in,
changes from 2.6.7 include snapshot and mirror support in the
device mapper, unbelievable numbers of "sparse" annotations, a bunch of
read-copy-update performance improvements, 64-bit SuperH support, some
security fixes, a reworked symbolic link lookup mechanism (which will
eventually enable raising the maximum link depth), and lots of fixes. The
long-format changelog has the details; the
2.6.8.1 changelog is also out there for the
curious.
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Version numbering Posted Aug 14, 2004 14:18 UTC (Sat) by mk270 (guest, #4485) [Link] Pity - it would have been nice to have kept the version numbering textually constistent, and called it 2.6.9, to avoid breaking any code which made assumptions about the format of the version string.
Version numbering Posted Aug 14, 2004 15:18 UTC (Sat) by Gunner (subscriber, #1448) [Link] They already considered that, but Linus thought it was about time:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/225784
Version numbering Posted Aug 14, 2004 15:20 UTC (Sat) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] The reports on last month's Kernel Summit made clear that this sort ofnumbering was coming.
Version numbering Posted Aug 15, 2004 4:11 UTC (Sun) by jmayer (subscriber, #595) [Link] Looks like I missed that part. Can you please post a link?
Version numbering Posted Aug 15, 2004 6:40 UTC (Sun) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link] Looks like it was in the post-Summit discussion on linux-kernel.http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3522
It's broken here Posted Aug 14, 2004 23:38 UTC (Sat) by davidw (subscriber, #947) [Link] My tibook no longer sleeps correctly:-(
It's broken here Posted Aug 16, 2004 13:32 UTC (Mon) by Gunner (subscriber, #1448) [Link] Well, this version didn't exactly impress me.It seems there are at least 2 (semi-)serious bugs in this release.
1. CD-Writing
2. QoS & Routing
At least #2 has been fixed, but maybe they're both history by now.
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