Release Linux kernel 2.6.26.

Yesterday 14/07/2008 year at 01:00 announced the release of Linux kernel 2.6.26

Innovations:



# mount FS parts (mount --bind) in read-only mode;

# support for PCI Express ASPM (Active State Power Management),

# support for IA64, S390 and PPC platforms in the KVM virtualization system. Also, basic paravirtualization has been added to KVM;

# definition of the list of devices that will be available in a certain isolated container (cgroups);

# now you can use / proc / PID / mountinfo to get information about mount points

# support for hardware features laptop OLPC;

# support for x86 PAT ( Page Attribute Table ) in the memory allocation system

# update the code of the file systems EXT4 , gfs2 , ocfs2 and xfs ;

# support of the draft version of the standard 802.11s for wireless mesh networks;

# inclusion of kgdb in the kernel;

# The kernel includes code for detecting errors in memory, acting as an analogue of the memtest program. You can now test the memory by passing the “memtest” parameter to the kernel when it is loaded;

# Improved code for group real-time scheduling of tasks.

# added drivers for video devices with USB interface (video cameras, web cameras, TV tuners, video converters, etc.) that meet the UVC specification not previously included in the main core due to a conflict with the video4linux subsystem;

# er-process securebits - the ability to bind an action of elevation of privileges or a change of owner bit (for example, setuid-0) only for a running process, without being distributed to the child processes it generated (all child processes will run without elevation of privileges);

# new drivers for network cards and wireless devices: Solarstorm SFC4000 controller, IXP4xx built-in Ethernet, Korina (IDT RC32434) Ethernet MAC, the capabilities of the iwlwifi and ath5k wireless drivers have been significantly expanded;

# New sound subsystem drivers: Audiophile192, Delta1010E, Delta 66E, Terrasoniq TS88, WM9713, Emagic Audiowerk 2, PXA3xx AC97, PXA3xx AC97. Support for many new HDA devices in hda-codec, intel8x0 supports 8-channel audio.

The new kernel contains more than 10,000 patches (patch size - 43 MB) from almost 1173 developers, approximately 40% of changes are related to the device driver code, 20% with support for various hardware architectures.

In addition, there was an update of the kernel 2.6.25.11 , which fixes a single error, leading to the possibility of a security breach on the x86-64 platform (the details of the vulnerability are currently not disclosed).



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ChangeLog-2.6.26

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