Linus Torvalds has announced the release of a new stable kernel, linux-3.5, in the Linux kernel mailing list. This kernel comes out after 7 release candidates and weights 77 megabytes. Some of the major features of this release include:
- CoDel queue management algorithm (for bufferbloat fighting)
- seccomp filters sandboxing mechanism
- autosleep (an alternative to Android' s opportunistic suspend mechanism)
- uprobes user-space probe filesystem
- the contiguous memory allocator
- kcmp() system call
- metadata checksumming in ext4
Other notable features include TCP connection repair, I/O failure statistics and latency improvements in Btrfs filesystem, Prime framework support for graphics drivers etc. You can read the release announcement here. It will take some time for your distro to package this kernel and include it in the repos. The source package of this kernel is available here.
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