The 2.6.30 kernel is out

[Posted June 10, 2009 by corbet]

Linus has released the 2.6.30 kernel. Some of the bigger changes in 2.6.30 include a number of filesystem improvements, the integrity measurement patches, the TOMOYO Linux security module, reliable datagram socket protocol support, object storage device support, the FS-Cache filesystem caching layer, the nilfs filesystem, threaded interrupt handler support, and much more. For more information, see the KernelNewbies 2.6.30 page, the long-format changelog, and LWN's statistics for this development cycle.

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The 2.6.30 kernel is out

Posted Jun 10, 2009 5:35 UTC (Wed) by wilreichert (guest, #17680) [Link] (2 responses)

Yay, (some) LVM barrier support!!! Maybe one of these days I'll be brave enough to re-enable write caching on my drives.

The 2.6.30 kernel is out

Posted Jun 10, 2009 14:20 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link] (1 responses)

Congratulations to the TOMOYO developers for getting their code finally merged into mainline!
Anyone knows how did they finally sorted out the pathname problem?

The 2.6.30 kernel is out

Posted Jun 11, 2009 0:44 UTC (Thu) by sitaram (guest, #5959) [Link]

I'm curious too; the linked LWN article is a little old, and there must have been some serious progress between then and now.

kernel.org

Posted Jun 10, 2009 19:35 UTC (Wed) by leromarinvit (subscriber, #56850) [Link] (1 responses)

What's up with kernel.org? It still says "The latest stable version of the Linux kernel is: 2.6.29.4". And the FTP server has two LATEST-IS files...

kernel.org

Posted Jun 10, 2009 19:45 UTC (Wed) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

Well a tarball is many times larger than the few merge commits Linus added on top ;-)