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wraggster
October 1st, 2012, 16:13
Linux 3.6 has been released (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/9/30/152). It includes new features in Btrfs: subvolume quotas, quota groups and snapshot diffs (aka "send/receive"). It also includes support for suspending to disk and memory at the same time, a TCP "Fast Open" mode, a "TCP small queues" feature to fight bufferbloat; support for safe swapping over NFS/NBD, better Ext4 quota support, support for the PCIe D3cold power state; and VFIO, which allows safe access from guest drivers to bare-metal host devices. Here's the full changelog (http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.6)."

http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/10/01/1444224/linux-36-released