The 3.12 kernel is out Linus has
released the 3.12 kernel.
"
I was vacillating whether to do an rc8 or just cut the final 3.12,
but since the biggest reason to *not* do a final release was not so much
the state of the code, as simply the fact that I'll be traveling with very
bad internet connection next week, I didn't really want to delay the
release."
Some of the main features in this release include improvements to the
dynamic tick code, support infrastructure for DRM render nodes, TSO sizing and the FQ scheduler in the network
layer, support for user namespaces in the XFS filesystem, multithreaded
RAID5 in the MD subsystem, offline data deduplication in the Btrfs
filesystem, and more.
Linus noted a couple of other things in the announcement. One is that the
3.13 merge window will not be starting for another week. He is also
starting to think about an eventual 4.0 release, and has tossed out the
idea of having 4.0 be a bugfix-only release, though he has his doubts as to
whether it would work. "But I do wonder.. Maybe it would be
possible, and I'm just unfairly
projecting my own inner squirrel onto other kernel developers. If we
have enough heads-up that people *know* that for one release (and
companies/managers know that too) the only patches that get accepted
are the kind that fix bugs, maybe people really would have sufficient
attention span that it could work."