Kernels 2.6.8, 2.6.8.1 released
[Posted August 14, 2004 by corbet]
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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