Kernel Log – Extra round for 2.6.31, X.org 7.5 on the horizon, staging area to be cleaned up
Linus Torvalds will release 2.6.31 a few days later than previously announced and has scheduled another release candidate, RC9. After some delay, the development of X.org 7.5 is now going ahead at full steam, and the developers plan to have the final version ready by the end of this month. Greg Kroah-Hartman wants to clean up the staging area – this could also affect Microsoft’s Hyper-V drivers. Con Kolivas has released BFS, a process scheduler specifically tailored for desktop systems.
Kernel status
The maintainers of the Linux Stable Series are preparing versions 2.6.27.32 and 2.6.30.6. The window for submitting comments already closed on Sunday night, which makes it likely that the two new versions will be released shortly. As usual, both versions correct several bugs and offer numerous, mostly minor improvements.
When releasing Linux 2.6.31 RC8, Linus Torvalds indicated that he intended to release 2.6.31, after his diving holiday, on US Labor Day which is on the 7th September this year. In his absence, however, quite a few subsystem maintainers submitted further corrections, which prompted him to schedule RC9. Torvalds said he wants to let the RC simmer for a few days before he releases the next version of the main development branch. There were still 27 unsolved problems in the list of unknown bugs not contained in 2.6.30 last weekend. The list of flaws introduced between 2.6.29 and 2.6.30 lists the same number of bugs.
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