Linux Kernel 3.5 Has Been Officially Released

After yet another seven Release Candidate versions, Linus Torvalds proudly announced on July 21st, the immediate availability for download of Linux kernel 3.

Linux kernel 3.5 brings various interesting features among which we can mention support for metadata checksums in the EXT4 filesystem, support for restoring and checkpointing TCP connections, support for TCP Early Retransmit (RFC 5827), a new network queue management algorithm designed to fight bufferbloat, Btrfs I/O failure statistics, and much more.

Highlights of Linux Kernel 3.5:

· EXT4 metadata checksums;

· Uprobes: userspace probes;

· Seccomp-based system call filtering;

· Bufferbloat fighting: CoDel queue management;

· TCP connection repair;

· TCP Early Retransmit;

· Android-style opportunistic suspend;

· Btrfs: I/O failure statistics, latency improvements;

· SCSI over FireWire and USB.

Linux kernel 3.5 also comes with many improvements in various areas, such as memory management fixes, networking, virtualization, security, perf/tracing, block, improvements to Btrfs, Tmpfs, XFS, CIFS, JFFS2, exofs, Cifs filesystems, as well as various core changes.

For downloading : http://linux.softpedia.com/get/System/Operating-Systems/Kernels/Linux-Kernel-Stable- 1960.shtml