p2pnet news | Open Source:- “I’m sure we’ve missed something, and I know we have some regressions pending. At the same time, we do need the coverage of a eral release, and on the whole it looks pretty good. We’ve fixed a few regressions in the last few days, and there’s always 2.6.30.x.”

That’s Linus Torvald on the release of Linux 2.6.30.

He goes on »»»

The appended shortlog from 2.6.29-rc8 is not very interesting, but it’s about as good as it gets. Not a lot of changes (just 72 non-merges,
according to git rev-list), and most of those are pretty small and
trivial. We’re talking mostly one-liners, with just a couple of them
standing out (in fact, just mainly the DPMS handling cleanup in
drm_crtc_helper.c)

As to the whole set of changes since 2.6.29, the best place to look is
probably just

http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_30

as usual. One thing that doesn’t seem to be mentioned there is that we’re
hopefully now done with the suspend/resume irq re-architecting, and have
switched to a new world order. Although I suspect lots of details will
still change, of course.

And as usual, I’ll wait a day or two before really opening the merge window. I want people to actually test this one rather than immediately  sending me “please pull” requests. Deal?.

Says the aforementioned kernelnewbies:

“This version adds the log-structured NILFS2 filesystem, a filesystem for object-based storage devices, a caching layer for local caching of NFS data, the RDS protocol which delivers high-performance reliable connections between the servers of a cluster, a distributed networking filesystem (POHMELFS), automatic flushing of files on renames/truncates in ext3, ext4 and btrfs, preliminary support for the 802.11w drafts, support for the Microblaze architecture, the Tomoyo security module, DRM support for the Radeon R6xx/R7xx graphic cards, asynchronous scanning of devices and partitions for faster bootup, MD support for switching between raid5/6 modes, the preadv/pwritev syscalls, several new drivers and many other small improvements.”
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June, 2009