The 2.6.36 kernel is out

[Posted October 20, 2010 by corbet]

Linus has released the 2.6.36 kernel with only a small number of changes since the 2.6.36-rc8 prepatch. Headline features in this release include the AppArmor security module, the LIRC infrared controller driver subsystem, and the new Tile architecture. The fanotify notification mechanism for anti-malware applications was disabled at the last minute due to ABI concerns. See the KernelNewbies 2.6.36 page for lots of information.

He also noted that a two-week merge window starting on October 21 would run into the Kernel Summit. "So I'm going to hope that we could perhaps even do the 2.6.37 -rc1 release and close the merge window the Sunday before KS opens. Since 2.6.36 was longer than usual (at least it felt that way), I wouldn't mind having a 2.6.37 that is shorter than usual. But holler if this really screws up any plans. Ten days instead of two weeks? Let's see if it's even reasonably realistic." (The 2.6.36 development cycle was 80 days, incidentally; almost exactly average for the last few years).

The 2.6.36 kernel is out

Posted Oct 21, 2010 0:51 UTC (Thu) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link]

The 2.6.36 development cycle was 80 days, incidentally; almost exactly average for the last few years.

That's what we pay for.

The 2.6.36 kernel is out

Posted Oct 21, 2010 10:26 UTC (Thu) by MisterIO (guest, #36192) [Link] (3 responses)

In the kernelnewbies page for the 2.6.36 kernel there is a list of changes for filesystems, but there's nothing about btrfs there. I haven't even heard anything recently about the bugs found during Shishkin's review of the code. Were they solved? Also, looking at git log, it doesn't seem like there's been a lot of activity on this fs. Any news about it?

The 2.6.36 kernel is out

Posted Oct 21, 2010 14:45 UTC (Thu) by marduk (subscriber, #3831) [Link]

Should we expect a librefs soon? ;-)

The 2.6.36 kernel is out

Posted Oct 22, 2010 18:45 UTC (Fri) by masoncl (subscriber, #47138) [Link] (1 responses)

We still have a large number of btrfs changes in the works, more are coming.

The 2.6.36 kernel is out

Posted Oct 24, 2010 19:02 UTC (Sun) by MisterIO (guest, #36192) [Link]

Thanks for the answer.