Thanks to Anonymous: 30372 we know that a new stable kernel of linux is out. This is kernel 2.4.18. It changelog is again very large. What is very striking is that a lot has been tinkered with the support of ReiserFS. Also, as usual, bugs have been fixed and support for various motorola processors has been improved.
Below is a portion from the changelog†
final:
No changes have been made between -final and -rc4.
rc4:
Load code did not set personality for binaries without an interpreter: This was breaking static apps on several archs (Tom Gall)
rc3:
Fix reiserfs endianess problems (Chris Mason)
Fix PowerMac compilation problem (Pmac team)
Fix some eepro100 IDs which had problems in -ac merge (Jeff Garzik)
Rename some internal pcnet32 definitions to not clash with ethtool.h – the clash caused the driver not work correctly (William Lee Irwin)
Add missing netif_carrier_” rel=”external”>on,off to eepro100 (Andrew Morton)
Fix net filter race (Rusty Russell)
Correct error handling on tcp_recvmsg (Alexey Kuznetsov)
Revert tulip changes which were apparently causing slowdowns (Jeff Garzik)
Fix ptrace behavior (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
rc2:
Make get_user_pages handle VM_IO areas gracefully (Manfred Spraul)
Fix SMP race on PID allocation (Erik A. Hendriks)
Fix SMP race on dnotify scheme (Alexander Viro)
Add missing checks to shmem_file_write (Alan Cox)
kernel [Stable]
Version number |
2.4.18 |
Operating systems |
Linux |
Website |
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