Sunday, November 15, 2015
Linus Torvalds announces release of Kernel 3.17 RC5 with Fixed Old Regression
Linus Torvalds officially announces the release of Linux Kernel 3.17 RC5 with pretty small changes and fixes. Like every Sunday, Linus announced the updated Kernel 3.17 RC5 release which mainly includes networking, drivers and architecture fixes.
According to official announcement made by Linus Torvalds on Sunday, He was planning to release this candidate by Wednesday this week but at the end he released on Sunday like other candidate releases. About this he commented that "So I should probably have delayed this until Wednesday for sentimental reasons: that will be 23 years since I uploaded the 0.01 source tree. But I'm not an overly sentimental person, so screw that. I'm doing my normal Sunday release".
As you know that the previous Kernel 3.17 RC4 was very small compared to earlier releases because neither Greg K Hartman nor Davem had sent their updates regarding fixes, but both of them submit their updates and fixes for this release candidate. So, we hope that RC5 will not be as small as previous RC4 release. Also, review recent Linux Kernel News to know what's new in Kernel 3.17 series release ?
About the old performance regression in dentry cache, Linus state that "I also got a report of an *old* performance regression in the dentry cache (since 3.10 - positively ancient), and that in turn made me look around some more, and there were a few other special cases that could cause us to not do as well as we should. I fixed some of it, and Al fixed the rest. So hopefully we not only fixed the reported regression, but are actually doing better than we used to".
The Kernel 3.17 RC5 comes with new changes in half of drivers which includes fixes in networking, gpu, usb, input and ata. Apart from this, it also includes updated filesystems, some architecture updates and core networking. Linus also claim that the upcoming RC6 and RC7 will be more calmer than earlier ones. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.
List of Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.17 RC5
- usb: xhci: Fix OOPS in xhci error handling code.
- move the call of __d_drop(anon) into __d_materialise_unique(dentry, anon).
- fix bogus read_seqretry() checks introduced in b37199e.
- don't bugger nd->seq on set_root_rcu() from follow_dotdot_rcu().
- be careful with nd->inode in path_init() and follow_dotdot_rcu().
- USB: document the 'u' flag for usb-storage quirks parameter.
- Block: fix unbalanced bypass-disable in blk_register_queue.
- net: prevent of emerging cross-namespace symlinks.
- at76c50x-usb: fix use after free on failure path in at76_probe().
- cpufreq / OPP: Fix the order of arguments for kcalloc().
- jiffies: Fix timeval conversion to jiffies
These are some of the major fixes which you may find in this release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.
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According to official announcement made by Linus Torvalds on Sunday, He was planning to release this candidate by Wednesday this week but at the end he released on Sunday like other candidate releases. About this he commented that "So I should probably have delayed this until Wednesday for sentimental reasons: that will be 23 years since I uploaded the 0.01 source tree. But I'm not an overly sentimental person, so screw that. I'm doing my normal Sunday release".
As you know that the previous Kernel 3.17 RC4 was very small compared to earlier releases because neither Greg K Hartman nor Davem had sent their updates regarding fixes, but both of them submit their updates and fixes for this release candidate. So, we hope that RC5 will not be as small as previous RC4 release. Also, review recent Linux Kernel News to know what's new in Kernel 3.17 series release ?
About the old performance regression in dentry cache, Linus state that "I also got a report of an *old* performance regression in the dentry cache (since 3.10 - positively ancient), and that in turn made me look around some more, and there were a few other special cases that could cause us to not do as well as we should. I fixed some of it, and Al fixed the rest. So hopefully we not only fixed the reported regression, but are actually doing better than we used to".
The Kernel 3.17 RC5 comes with new changes in half of drivers which includes fixes in networking, gpu, usb, input and ata. Apart from this, it also includes updated filesystems, some architecture updates and core networking. Linus also claim that the upcoming RC6 and RC7 will be more calmer than earlier ones. You might also like to check out other latest Software News on our website.
List of Fixes Made in Linux Kernel 3.17 RC5
- usb: xhci: Fix OOPS in xhci error handling code.
- move the call of __d_drop(anon) into __d_materialise_unique(dentry, anon).
- fix bogus read_seqretry() checks introduced in b37199e.
- don't bugger nd->seq on set_root_rcu() from follow_dotdot_rcu().
- be careful with nd->inode in path_init() and follow_dotdot_rcu().
- USB: document the 'u' flag for usb-storage quirks parameter.
- Block: fix unbalanced bypass-disable in blk_register_queue.
- net: prevent of emerging cross-namespace symlinks.
- at76c50x-usb: fix use after free on failure path in at76_probe().
- cpufreq / OPP: Fix the order of arguments for kcalloc().
- jiffies: Fix timeval conversion to jiffies
These are some of the major fixes which you may find in this release. If you wish to check out complete list of all fixes then you must visit their official changelog page.
Keep reading and stay tuned with us to get latest software news. Don't forget to subscribe us and share your reviews about this post among other readers via comments.
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