14 DAY TRIAL // Linus Torvalds announced the immediate availability for download of the third released candidate for the Linux 3.7 kernel series.
According to Linus Torvalds, this new release candidate for the Linux kernel 3.7.x branch holds nothing extraordinary, with just a few memory leak fixes in USB serial drivers and some other stuff.
Most of the implemented changes are at the driver level, for drm, wireless, staging, USB, and sound, but there are also a few fixes for various filesystem (nfs, btrfs, ext4), and some Arch updates (ARM, x86, and m68k).
Linus Torvalds didn't miss the chance of a release candidate changelog to have some fun, at the expense of the kernel developers.
“And talking about the shortlog: christ people, some of you need to change your names. I'm used to there being multiple 'David's and 'Peter's etc, but there are three different Linus's in just this rc.”
“People, people, I want to feel like the unique snowflake I am, not like just another anonymous guy in a crowd. I'm getting myself a broadsword,” ended Linus 'there can be only one' Torvalds.
Highlights of Linux kernel 3.7 RC3:
• DDS/Varispeed can now be set from userspace; • Segment memory addresses check has been fixed; • Some new SI PCI ids, for Radeon, have been added; • Preserve ownership (uid and gid) also for symlinks, in btrfs filesystem; • A virtualization sanity check for x86 has been fixed; • Validate syscall id before growing syscall table; • A memory leak on thread/process exit on Android has been fixed; • Missing license tag has been added to ezusb driver; • PID/VID has been added for a Ubiquiti WiFiStation.
A complete list of changes and fixes can be found in the official mailing list.
Download Linux kernel 3.7 RC3 right now from Softpedia. Remember that this is a development release and it is intended for testing purposes only.