Linux 2.4.15/2.5.0 Released

Yup! Version 2.4.15 of the Linux kernel has been released which also marks the beta release of 2.5.0. This release includes two major features: ext3 and inter-mezzo. Ext3 is the second journaled filesystem included in the kernel. And Inter-mezzo is a Network filesystem that will make a lot of laptop-users a lot more happy. The complete changelog is in the read more. As always, please use a mirror when downloading the kernel. The best place to find one of these would certainly be http://www.kernel.org.

final:
- Jan Kara: fix quota SMP races with BKL

pre9:
- David Brownell: usbnet update
- Greg KH: USB and PCI hotplug update

- Ingo/me: fix SCHED_FIFO for UP/SMP for good (flw).
- Add back direct_IO now that it works again.

pre8:
- Richard Henderson: alpha update
- Andrew Morton: fix ext3/minix/sysv fsync behaviour.

pre7:
- Jeff Garzik: network driver updates
- Christoph Hellwig: UFS filesystem byteorder cleanups
- me: modified Andrea VM page allocator tuning

pre6:
- Russell King: /proc/cpuinfo for ARM
- Paul Mackerras: PPC update (cpuinfo etc)
- Nicolas Aspert: fix Intel 8xx agptlb flush
- Marko Myllynen: "Lindent" doesn't really need bash ;)
- Alexander Viro: /proc/cpuinfo for s390/s390x/sh, /proc/pci cleanup
- Alexander Viro: make lseek work on seqfiles

pre5:
- Greg KH: enable hotplug driver support
- Andrea Arcangeli: remove bogus sanity check
- David Mosberger: /proc/cpuinfo and scsi scatter-gather for ia64
- David Hinds: 16-bit pcmcia network driver updates/cleanups
- Hugh Dickins: remove some stale code from VM
- David Miller: /proc/cpuinfo for sparc, sparc fork bug fix, network
fixes, warning fixes
- Peter Braam: intermezzo update
- Greg KH: USB updates
- Ivan Kokshaysky: /proc/cpuinfo for alpha
- David Woodhouse: jffs2 - remove dead code, remove gcc3 warning
- Hugh Dickins: fix kiobuf page allocation/deallocation

pre4:
- Mikael Pettersson: make proc_misc happy without modules
- Arjan van de Ven: clean up acpitable implementation ("micro-acpi")
- Anton Altaparmakov: LDM partition code update
- Alan Cox: final (yeah, sure) small missing pieces
- Andrey Savochkin/Andrew Morton: eepro100 config space save/restore over suspend
- Arjan van de Ven: remove power from pcmcia socket on card remove
- Greg KH: USB updates
- Neil Brown: multipath updates
- Martin Dalecki: fix up some "asmlinkage" routine markings

pre3:
- Alan Cox: more driver merging
- Al Viro: make ext2 group allocation more readable

pre2:
- Ivan Kokshaysky: fix alpha dec_and_lock with modules, for alpha config entry
- Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
- Jeff Garzik: network driver updates, sysv fs update
- Kai Mäkisara: SCSI tape update
- Alan Cox: large drivers merge
- Nikita Danilov: reiserfs procfs information
- Andrew Morton: ext3 merge
- Christoph Hellwig: vxfs livelock fix
- Trond Myklebust: NFS updates
- Jens Axboe: cpqarray + cciss dequeue fix
- Tim Waugh: parport_serial base_baud setting
- Matthew Dharm: usb-storage Freecom driver fixes
- Dave McCracken: wait4() thread group race fix

pre1:
- me: fix page flags race condition Andrea found
- David Miller: sparc and network updates
- various: fix loop driver that thought it was part of the VM system
- me: teach DRM about VM_RESERVED
- Alan Cox: more merging