Linux Kernel 3.3 Released With Android Merge, New File Systems & More Security

Linux Kernel 3.3 Released With Android Merge, New File Systems & More Security

After a few of rc release, finally Linus Torvalds has released Linux Kernel 3.3. According to the release note by Torvaldas - " Things did indeed calm down during the last week, and the shortlog looks pretty boring. The diffstat from -rc7 is dominated by the arch/tile defconfig changes, the rest is pretty small, although there are changes spread out in various subsystem s(drivers, filesystem, networking, perf tools)."

Summary:- This release features as the most important change the merge of kernel 

code from the Android project. But there is more, it also includes support for a new 

architecture (TI C6X), much improved balancing and the ability to restripe between 

different RAID profiles in Btrfs, and several network improvements: a virtual switch

implementation (Open vSwitch) designed for virtualization scenarios, a faster and 

more scalable alternative to the "bonding" driver, a configurable limit to the 

transmission queue of the network devices to fight bufferbloat, a network priority 

control group and per-cgroup TCP buffer limits. There are also many small 

features and new drivers and fixes are also available. 

Prominent Features in Linux 3.3:-

• Android merge

• Btrfs: restriping between different RAID levels, improved balancing, improved debugging tools

• Open vSwitch

• Bufferbloat fighting: Byte queue limits

• Per-cgroup TCP buffer limits

• Network priority control group

• Better ext4 online resizing

• New architecture: TI C6X

• EFI boot support

• Driver and architecture-specific change

• Memory Management

• Virtualization

• Crypto

• Security

• Tracing/profiling

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