Linux creator Linus Torvalds announced the latest release candidate of the upcoming 2.6.23 kernel, "it can mostly be described with the one word, 'boring'", he said, noting there weren't any exciting changes. He added that there was two weeks between this and the last release candidate, summarizing:
"As a result, -rc4 is a bit bigger than it would/should have been, but hopefully it's all good, and we've fixed most regressions. There's some arch updates (MIPS, power, sparc64, s390) and an ACPI update, but the rest of it is mainly lots of small fixes (mostly to various random drivers). With some scheduler and networking noise."
Actual source-level changes can be viewed through the gitweb interface. Kernel Newbies maintains a list of all changes in the upcoming kernel.
From: Linus Torvalds [email blocked] To: Linux Kernel Mailing List [email blocked] Subject: Linux 2.6.23-rc4 Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:58:08 -0700 (PDT) Ok, I lost it, and let two weeks pass between -rc releases. My bad. As a result, -rc4 is a bit bigger than it would/should have been, but hopefully it's all good, and we've fixed most regressions. There's some arch updates (MIPS, power, sparc64, s390) and an ACPI update, but the rest of it is mainly lots of small fixes (mostly to various random drivers). With some scheduler and networking noise. I think the shortlog is _just_ too big to be posted on the kernel mailing list, but since it can mostly be described with the one word "boring", it's not a huge loss. As usual, just do git shortlog v2.6.23-rc3..v2.6.23-rc4 if you have the git trees to get the all the details on extraneous semicolons, missed or duplicate include files, kzalloc conversions, new PCI ID's etc etc. Linus
Boring is good.
"As a result, -rc4 is a bit bigger than it would/should have been, but hopefully it's all good, and we've fixed most regressions. There's some arch updates (MIPS, power, sparc64, s390) and an ACPI update, but the rest of it is mainly lots of small fixes (mostly to various random drivers). With some scheduler and networking noise."
I for one would be very very happy if more Linux kernel releases were so "boring." Flaws found and regressions fixed. Its already got features galore, and it'd be sweet to work almost exclusively on making the whole thing truely solid.
I've recently started
I've recently started following kernel development and was wondering if release dates (or timeframes) for the kernel were generally announced. Is there a release date for 2.6.23?
Thanks!
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Release dates
> Is there a release date for 2.6.23?
No. It'll be released 'when it's ready'.
Kernel development
LOL! n00b!
Sensible question,
Sensible question, contemptible answer.
Don't be offended, it is
Don't be offended, it is kind of an inside joke, people always press linus & co. regarding release dates, and the whole philosophy is that we don't release crap to artificially make ship dates. Thus, "when it's ready" is the mantra.
looks very atractive
looks very atractive release, one question
Could it be possible, that the fixed bugs over /core/neighbour and /core/multicast, affected a router, say in example dropping ICMP request or UDP request from a lan??
...maybe someone with expertise level can explain me a little bit more what could possible this affected.
thnxs in advance
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Not sure the release is boring...
Hi there,
I think that Linus was not referring to the rc4 when he said "boring":
If I understand it correctly "boring" was referring to the shortlog... well... a boring shortlog almost imply a boring release ;)
Bye
Piero