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Linux 2.4.15/2.5.0 Released

posted onNovember 23, 2001
by hitbsecnews

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

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