Software Update: Linux Kernel 2.6.34

On Monday, version 2.6.34 of the Linux Kernel was released. The kernel is the heart of the operating system and, simply put, it sits as a layer between the hardware and the applications. There are no exciting things in version 2.6.34, Linus Torvalds said. The full changelog can be found here read. Below is Linus’ announcement.

Linux 2.6.34

Nothing very interesting here, which is just how I like it. Various random fixes all over, nothing really stands out. Pretty much all of it is one- or few-liners, I think the biggest patch in the last week was fixing some semantics for the new SR-IOV VF netlink interface. And even that wasn’t a _big_ patch by any means.

So 2.6.34 is out, and the merge window is thus officially open. As usual, I probably won’t do any real pulls for a day or two, in the (probably futile) hope that we’ll have more people running plain 2.6.34 for a while. But you can certainly start sending me pull requests.

go forth and test,

Linus