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Linux 2.4.18 Released

Posted by michael on from the power-of-pure-penguins dept.

Kourino writes: "Marcelo announced the release of 2.4.18 a couple hours ago after 4 release candidates, but the tree marked 2.4.18 on kernel.org is missing the -rc4 patch that finally made the kernel releasable. Basically, what's marked as 2.4.18 is really -rc3, and what's marked as -rc4 is what should have become 2.4.18. According to Marcelo on #kernelnewbies, most users won't be affected, but people on SPARC systems should definitely grab 2.4.18-rc4. Your best bet is probably just to get 2.4.17 and patch to 2.4.18-rc4. Seems 2.4 is destined to be an "interesting" release branch ^_^; For the new release, head over to your favorite kernel.org mirror. (Marcelo will set things straight in 2.4.19-pre1.)"

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  1. making sure karma whores get modded as redundant by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Update: The SET_PERSONALITY fix in rc4 has _not_
    been included in the final 2.4.18 by mistake.

    final:

    - No changes have been made between -final
    and -rc4.

    rc4:

    - Load code did not set personality for
    binaries without an interpreter: This was
    breaking static apps on several archs (Tom Gall)

    rc3:

    - Fix reiserfs endianess problems (Chris Mason)
    - Fix PowerMac compilation problem (Pmac team)
    - Fix some eepro100 ID's which had problems
    in -ac merge (Jeff Garzik)
    - Rename some internal pcnet32 definitions to
    not clash with ethtool.h - the clash caused
    the driver not work correctly (William Lee Irwin)
    - Add missing netif_carrier_{on,off} to
    eepro100 (Andrew Morton)
    - Fix netfilter race (Rusty Russell)
    - Correct error handling on tcp_recvmsg (Alexey Kuznetsov)
    - Revert tulip changes which were apparently
    causing slowdowns (Jeff Garzik)
    - Fix ptrace behaviour (Linus Benedict Torvalds)

    rc2:

    - Make get_user_pages handle VM_IO areas
    gracefully (Manfred Spraul)
    - Fix SMP race on PID allocation (Erik A. Hendriks)
    - Fix SMP race on dnotify scheme (Alexander Viro)
    - Add missing checks to shmem_file_write (Alan Cox)

    rc1:
    - PPC MPC8260 update (Tom Rini)
    - eepro100 fixes (Jeff Garzik)
    - Make natsemi hardware workaround a config
    option (Jeff Garzik)
    - Add serial board PCI ID (Jeff Garzik)
    - Add support for another tulip clone (Jeff Garzik)
    - Fix typo in winbond driver (Jeff Garzik)
    - Move initialization of tridentfb before
    the generic drivers (Geert Uytterhoeven)
    - Reiserfs bugfixes (Oleg Drokin)
    - More __devexit_p assorted fixes (Andrew Morton)
    - Merge some -ac bugfixes (Alan Cox)

    pre9:

    - Cris update (Bjorn Wesen)
    - SPARC update (David S. Miller)
    - Remove duplicate CONFIG_SUNLANCE entry in
    Config.in (David S. Miller)
    - Change Netfilter maintainer (David S. Miller)
    - More SunGEM bugfixes (David S. Miller)
    - Update md5sums in ISDN's md5sums.asc (Kai Germaschewski)
    - 3ware driver update (Adam Radford)
    - Fix cosa compile problem (Adrian Bunk)
    - Change VIA "disabling write queue" message (Oliver Feiler)
    - Remove buggy Elan-specific handling code (Robert Schwebel)
    - Reiserfs bugfixes (Oleg Drokin)
    - Fix ppp memory leak (Andrew Morton)
    - Really add devfs fix for removable devices:
    its on pre8 changelog but not on pre8 patch (me)
    - Add framebuffer support for trident graphics
    card (James Simmons)
    - SCSI tape driver bugfixes (Kai Makisara)
    - Add support to Ovislink card on 8139too
    driver (Jeff Garzik)
    - Add SIOCxMIIxxxx ioctls for better binary
    compatibility on au1000_eth driver (Jeff Garzik)
    - Fix initialization of phy on epic100 driver (Jeff Garzik)
    - Add MODULE_* info to mii.c (Jeff Garzik)
    - Add new PCI ID to sundance driver (Jeff Garzik)
    - Merge some -ac3 patches (Alan Cox)
    - Unify simple_strtol symbol export (Russell King)
    - Add amount of cached memory to sysreq-m
    output (Martin Knoblauch)
    - Do not use SCSI device type to change
    IO clustering (Jens Axboe)
    - IRC conntrack update (Harald Welte)
    - sonypi driver update (Stelian Pop)
    - Fix one of the PPP deadlocks (Manfred Spraul)

    pre8:

    - Add missing netfilter files in pre7 (David S. Miller)
    - SunGEM driver update (David S. Miller)
    - Kill get_fast_time (David S. Miller)
    - Update APIC LVTERR fix to work correctly on
    old 486/586 APICs (Mikael Pettersson)
    - Check the return code of copy_{from,to}_user
    on serial code (Rasmus Andersen)
    - Mark 2.5 extended attributes system calls as
    reserved to avoid potential conflicts (Nathan Scott)
    - Change Christoph Hellwig's email address (Christoph Hellwig)
    - Make BLKGETSIZE64 return size in bytes not
    sectors (Eric Sandeen)
    - Coda dentry revalidation fix (Jan Harkes)
    - hisax_fcpcipnp driver update (Kai Germaschewski)
    - i810 sound driver update (Doug Ledford)
    - Early personality setting in binfmt_elf (Christoph Hellwig)
    - Fix rename bug in reiserfs (Oleg Drokin)
    - SCSI documentation update (Douglas Gilbert)
    - Fix silly typo in megaraid driver (Arjan Van de Ven)
    - PPC update (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
    - USB bug fixes (Greg KH)
    - Fix devfs problems with removable devices (Richard Gooch)
    - Merge -ac1 fixes (Alan Cox)
    - VXFS update (Christoph Hellwig)
    - Add Compaq FC array to the LUN whitelist (Arjan Van de Ven)

    pre7:

    - Make ext2/minix/sysvfs actually operate
    synchronously on directories when using
    the sync mount option (Andrew Morton)
    - AFFS update (Roman Zippel)
    - Fix 3dfx fb crash with high pixelclock (Jurriaan on Alpha)
    - PATH_MAX POSIX compliance (Rusty Russell)
    - Really apply AMD Elan patch (me)
    - Don't drop IP packets with less than 8 bytes
    of payload (David S. Miller)
    - Netfilter update (Netfilter team)
    - Backport 2.5 sb_bread() changes (Alexander Viro)
    - Fix AF_UNIX fd leak (David S. Miller)
    - Add Audigy Gameport PCI ID (Daniel Bertrand)
    - Sync with ia64 arch independant parts (Keith Owens)
    - APM fixes (Stephen Rothwell)
    - fs/super.c cleanups (Alexander Viro)

    pre6:

    - Removed patch in icmp code: its
    not needed and causes problems (me)

    pre5:

    - Include missing radeonfb defines (Erik Andersen)
    - Fix fs/buffer.c thinko introduced in pre4 (Andrew Morton)
    - USB bugfixes (Greg KH)
    - Make fat work correctly with gcc-3.0.x (Tom Rini)
    - Avoid overusage of the vmalloc area by
    NTFS (Anton Altaparmakov)
    - atyfb: Decrease clock rate for 3d RAGE XL (David S. Miller)
    - Sungem driver bugfixes (David S. Miller)
    - More networking updates (David S. Miller)
    - More SPARC updates (David S. Miller)
    - devfs update (Richard Gooch)
    - Reiserfs expanding truncate fix (Chris Mason)
    - ext3 update (Andrew Morton/Stephen Tweedie)
    - Add support to WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT on several
    watchdog drivers (Joel Becker)
    - dl2k driver update (Jeff Garzik)
    - Orinoco driver update (David Gibson)
    - Radeonfb driver update (Ani Joshi)
    - Avoid free_swap_and_cache() from leaving
    freeable pages on the cache (Hugh Dickins)
    - Add workarounds for AMD Elan processors (Robert Schwebel)
    - Random pmac driver bugfixing (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
    - emu10k1 driver update (Rui Sousa)

    pre4:

    - Networking updates (David S. Miller)
    - clgenfb update (Jeff Garzik)
    - 8139cp: make it faster (Jeff Garzik)
    - 8139too: fix bugs, add experimental RX reset (Jeff Garzik)
    - Add MII ethtool interface and change
    several drivers to support that (Jeff Garzik)
    - Fix ramdisk corruption problems (Andrea Arcangeli)
    - Correct in-kernel MS_ASYNC behaviour
    on msync/fsync() (Andrew Morton)
    - Fix PLIP problems (Niels Jensen)
    - Fix problems triggered by the "fsx test"
    on smbfs (Urban Widmark)
    - Turn on OOSTORE for IDT winchip (from -ac tree)
    - Fix iphase crash (from -ac tree)
    - Fix crash with two mxser cards (from -ac tree)
    - Fix tty write block bug (from -ac tree)
    - Add mono/stereo detect to gemtek pci radio (from -ac tree)
    - Fix sf16fmi crash on load (from -ac tree)
    - add CP1250 (windows eastern european)
    translation table (from -ac tree)
    - cs46xx driver update (from -ac tree)
    - Fix rare data loss case with RAID-1 (Ingo Molnar)
    - Add 2.5.x compatibility for the kdev_t
    changes (me)
    - SPARC updates (David S. Miller)

    pre3:

    - Cris arch merge (Bjorn Wesen)
    - Finish PPC merge (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
    - Add Dell PowerEdge 2400 to
    "use BIOS to reboot" blacklist (Arjan van de Ven)
    - Avoid potential oops at module unload with
    cyclades driver (Andrew Morton)
    - Gracefully handle SCSI initialization
    failures (Pete Zaitcev)
    - USB update (Greg KH)
    - Fix potential oops while ejecting ide cds (Zwane Mwaikambo)
    - Unify page freeing codepaths (Benjamin LaHaise)
    - Miata dma corruption workaround (Richard Henderson)
    - Fix vmalloc corruption problem on machines
    with virtual dcaches (Ralf Baechle)
    - Reiserfs fixes (Oleg Drokin)
    - DiskOnChip driver update (David Woodhouse)
    - Do not inherit page locking rules across
    fork/exec (Dave Anderson)
    - Add DRM 4.0 for XFree 4.0 users convenience (Christoph Hellwig)
    - Replace .text.lock with .subsection (Keith Owens)
    - IrDA bugfixes (Jean Tourrilhes)

    pre2:

    - APIC LVTERR fixes (Mikael Pettersson)
    - Fix ppdev ioctl oops and deadlock (Tim Waugh)
    - parport fixes (Tim Waugh)
    - orinoco wireless driver update (David Gibson)
    - Fix oopsable race in binfmt_elf.c (Alexander Viro)
    - Small sx16 driver bugfix (Heinz-Ado Arnolds)
    - sbp2 deadlock fix (Andrew Morton)
    - Fix JFFS2 write error handling (David Woodhouse)
    - Intermezzo update (Peter J. Braam)
    - Proper AGP support for Intel 830MP chipsets (Nicolas Aspert)
    - Alpha fixes (Jay Estabrook)
    - 53c700 SCSI driver update (James Bottomley)
    - Fix coredump mmap_sem deadlock on IA64 (David Mosberger)
    - 3ware driver update (Adam Radford)
    - Fix elevator insertion point on failed
    request merge (Jens Axboe)
    - Remove bogus rpciod_tcp_dispatcher definition (David Woodhouse)
    - Reiserfs fixes (Oleg Drokin)
    - de4x5 endianess fixes (Kip Walker)
    - ISDN CAPI cleanup (Kai Germaschewski)
    - Make refill_inactive() correctly account
    progress (me)

    pre1:

    - S390 merge (IBM)
    - SuperH merge (SuperH team)
    - PPC merge (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
    - PCI DMA update (David S. Miller)
    - radeonfb update (Ani Joshi)
    - aty128fb update (Ani Joshi)
    - Add nVidia GeForce3 support to rivafb (Ani Joshi)
    - Add PM support to opl3sa2 (Zwane Mwaikambo)
    - Basic ethtool support for 3com, starfire
    and pcmcia net drivers (Jeff Garzik)
    - Add MII ethtool interface (Jeff Garzik)
    - starfire,sundance,dl2k,sis900,8139{too,cp},
    natsemi driver updates (Jeff Garzik)
    - ufs/minix: mark inodes as bad in case of read
    failure (Christoph Hellwig)
    - ReiserFS fixes (Oleg Drokin)
    - sonypi update (Stelian Pop)
    - n_hdlc update (Paul Fulghum)
    - Fix compile error on aty_base.c (Tobias Ringstrom)
    - Document cpu_to_xxxx() on kernel-hacking doc (Rusty Russell)
    - USB update (Greg KH)
    - Fix sysctl console loglevel bug on
    IA64 (and possibly other archs) (Jesper Juhl)
    - Update Athlon/VIA PCI quirks (Calin A. Culianu)
    - blkmtd update (Simon Evans)
    - boot protocol update (makes the highest
    possible initrd address available to the
    bootloader) (H. Peter Anvin)
    - NFS fixes (Trond Myklebust)

  2. Kernels-R-US by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant
    I predict:

    • Someone will say that he just downloaded and buildt the last one.
    • 23 posts saying "There goes my X days of uptime".
    • 6 karma whores posting the changelog.
    • 12 posts telling us to use mirrors.
    • 1 BSD is dying post.