Linux 2.6.32-rc8 Kernel Released

Linus Torvalds has rleased what will probably be the last RC before we get the stable 2.6.32, although he has said that things are looking good, and that if an RC9 is necessary, so be it. Otherwise we should be looking an upgrade pretty soon.

Ok, the way things are going, this will likely be the last -rc. I wish we had more people looking at the regression list, but at some point I’m just going to have to say “ok, enough is enough”.

I’m also going to be away for the Thanksgiving week (which is next week, for all you who live outside the US, or for those of you who are otherwise oblivious about these things), so I didn’t want to open the merge window any earlier either – thus one last -rc is pretty natural.

I’ll also see how quiet things will be during the week I’m off-line, it may obviously turn out that we’ll need an -rc9. That said, I think we’re in pretty reasonable shape here.

In fact, there hasn’t been a whole lot of excitement since -rc7. The biggest patches are literally a couple of reverts (in isdn code and libipw, respectively), and a couple of updates to shipped lex/yacc files (where the real change was just a couple of lines, but the generated files changed more, partly due to different versions of lex/yacc to generate them).

The rest is pretty much fairly trivial one-liners (or ‘few-liners’).

So give it a good testing,

Linus

Thursday, 19 November 2009 14:56 Linus Torvalds

From: http://www.linux.com/news/software/linux-kernel/226713-linux-2632-rc8-released

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