Working Overloaded Linux Kernel

This release adds new features, such as rICMP
support, objrmap, anon_vma, and prio trees from
the latest 2.6.5-rc2-aa4 tree. Updates were made
to the O(1) batch scheduler, ReiserFS v3 extended
attributes, ACLs, and security labels. The
grsecurity2 addon has been updated. Important
fixes were made to the ICMP code, which ignored
ICMP echo requests when CONFIG_IP_NMAP_FREAK was
not set. Two addons, named Systrace v1.5 and the
Staircase Scheduler have been added.

This release adds new features such as a modular
OOM killer, Orinoco Monitor Mode, and routing
enhancements (2.6.4-ja1). Updates were made to
IEEE 1394. More features were added to the
grsecurity2 addon, like ELF text relocation
logging and selinux hooks for PaX. Important fixes
were made for grsecurity2, like nullpointer
dereferences with multithreaded applications using
the RBAC system. Compilation problems on x86_64
have been fixed. Another addon, named GoboHide,
has been added.

This release added new features such as IP stealth,
Emulex LP drivers, IMQ, LUFS, shfs, CDfs, PRAMfs,
NFS(d) acl support, KDB v4.3, evlog, uml-skas3, TuX,
MIPv6 support, ReiserFS Quota, ReiserFS
data=ordered, WinTv PVR 250/350 support,
Infiniband support, l7-netfilter, and l7-childlevel
support. Updates were made to XFS and the Qlogic
QLA2xxx driver with failover support. Reiser4 has
been removed. Grsecurity2 and Win4Lin 5.0 support
were added as options.

This is the first Linux 2.6 edition. This release adds new features like PaX, Layer 7 QoS v0.4.1b, Bootsplash v3.1.3, SuperMount-NG v2.0.4, HostAP driver v0.1.3, SquashFS v1.3-r3, SCSI Media Changer v0.22, Twofish encryption for the loop device, ReiserFS extended attributes, ReiserFS ACLs, ReiserFS Security Labels, and Scheduler Tunable preselections. The Adaptec SCSI RAID adapters support has been fixed and enabled amongst many other build fixes.

This release adds fixes many bugs, including recent "steal locks"
problems, NBD race conditions and deadlocks, some bogus ext3 problems,
v4l1 having wrong poll_table usage due to epoll, and the RMAP oom
problem. IPVS has been updated to 1.10, rsbac to 1.2.2, DRBD to
0.6.6, XFS to 1.3-pre5, kdb to 4.3, EVMS to 2.1.0, q to full rev2, i2c
and lmsensors to 2.8.0, and CIFS to 0.8.7. A new feature has been
added, shfs 0.32-pre1.