Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 9th Oct 2007 22:07 UTC, submitted by diegocg
After 3 months, Linus has released Linux 2.6.23. This version includes the new and shiny CFS process scheduler, a simpler read-ahead mechanism, the lguest 'Linux-on-Linux' paravirtualization hypervisor, XEN guest support, KVM smp guest support, variable process argument length, SLUB is now the default slab allocator, SELinux protection for exploiting null dereferences using mmap, XFS and ext4 improvements, PPP over L2TP support, the 'lumpy' reclaim algorithm, a userspace driver framework, the O_CLOEXEC file descriptor flag, splice improvements, a new fallocate() syscall, lock statistics, support for multiqueue network devices, various new drivers and many other minor features and fixes.
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Note that this is the paravirt_ops implementation of Xen and not the one that supports all of the great features. The paravirt_ops version is actually a good bit stripped down compared to the one you can get in kernels downloaded from xensource.com.