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Sunday, April 25th, 2021
| Time |
Event |
| 4:58p |
A letter from the UMN researchers The University of Minnesota researchers who have stirred up the kernel community with various types of bad patches have sent
an open letter to the linux-kernel list. " This current incident
has caused a great deal of anger in the Linux community toward us, the
research group, and the University of Minnesota. We apologize
unconditionally for what we now recognize was a breach of the shared trust
in the open source community and seek forgiveness for our missteps." | | 10:36p |
The 5.12 kernel has been released Linus Torvalds has released the 5.12
kernel. " Thanks to everybody who made last week very calm indeed, which just
makes me feel much happier about the final 5.12 release." Headline features in 5.12 include the removal of a number of obsolete, (mostly) 32-bit Arm subarchitectures, atomic
instructions for BPF, conditional file lookups with LOOKUP_CACHED, support for zoned block devices in the Btrfs
filesystem, threaded NAPI polling in the network stack, filesystem ID mapping, support for building the kernel with Clang link-time
optimization, the KFENCEkernel-debugging tool, and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries ( part 1, part 2) and the (in-progress) KernelNewbies 5.12 page for more information. |
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