Last night, August 1st, Linus Torvalds proudly announced the release of Linux kernel 2.6.35. The new version includes Direct-IO Support for the Btrfs filesystem, XFS filesystem experimental journal mode, perf improvements, VC1 and H.264 video acceleration for Intel G45+ chipsets, initial support for the Intel Cougarpoint graphic chipset, AMD Radeon power management support, CAIF protocol support (see below for a detailed list), and many other fixes.
"This may have been a fairly odd release cycle with my rather strict -rc rules before -rc3, but on the whole I think I liked it, and it seems to have worked out ok. I relaxed my extreme stance after getting back from vacation, so the latter half of the rc series was more normal. But even then I got the feeling that people were perhaps a bit more aware of the whole "regression fixes only" model, which is all good. It's a bit hard to judge, but there are some numbers to back it up: in the 2.6.34 release, there were 3800 commits after -rc1, but in the current 35 release cycle we had less than 2000." - Linus Torvalds said in the official release announcement.
Highlights of Linux Kernel 2.6.35:
· Support for transparent spreading of incoming network traffic load, across CPUs; · Btrfs filesystem improvements; · Delayed logging for XFS filesystem; · Kernel debugger (KDB) frontend; · perf improvements; · Intel graphics improvements; · Memory compaction; · Multiple multicast route tables support; · Support for L2TP v3 (RFC 3931); · Support for the CAIF protocol; · APEI (ACPI Platform Error Interface) support.
These are just a few of the new features available in the Linux kernel 2.6.35. For a complete list of all the newly supported devices, newly added drivers, etc., please visit the official release notes page.
You can download Linux Kernel 2.6.35 sources right now from Softpedia.