Marcelo Tosatti released 2.4.23-rc3, likely the final 2.4.23 release candidate. Referring to his comment that rc2 would probably become the final version of 2.4.23 [story], Marcelo explained, "a few critical problems showed up, so here is -rc3." If no additional critical issues are found, we can expect this to soon become the official 2.4.23 release.

Some of the more significant changes in 2.4.23 over 2.4.22 include: numerous networking updates [story]; DRM support for XFree86 v4.3.0 and above [story]; significant updates to the VM including the removal of the OOM killer [story]; several ACPI fixes [story] [story] [story] [story]; support for "laptop mode" [story]; and a large assortment of other updates and fixes. Also during this release cycle, 2.4 kernel maintainer Marcelo Tosatti moved to a new employer [story].

Read on for the complete changelog which lists the specific changes since -rc2.

From: Marcelo Tosatti [email blocked]
To:  linux-kernel
Subject: Linux 2.4.23-rc3
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 16:40:42 -0200 (BRST)


Hi, 

A few critical problems showed up, so here is -rc3.


Summary of changes from v2.4.23-rc2 to v2.4.23-rc3
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<amir.noam:intel.com>:
  o [bonding] fix creation of /proc/net/bonding dir

<debian:abeckmann.de>:
  o [SPARC]: Make check_asm.sh not get confused by .section .note.GNU-stack output by newer gcc

<len.brown:intel.com>:
  o [ACPI] "pci=noacpi" -- replace two sets of flags with one: acpi_noirq
  o [ACPI] "pci=noacpi" -- 2.4.23 specific part of previous 2.4.22 fix

<marcelo:logos.cnet>:
  o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -rc3

David Engebretsen:
  o Put autoconsole option at the front of the cmd line
  o Fix comment to reflect correct file name
  o fix byte order in comparison

Ed Vance:
  o Fix ST16C654 UART support broke by ELAN patches

Herbert Xu:
  o [netdrvr tg3] fix BCM5705 pending-RX count (was 64, now 63)

Matthew Wilcox:
  o Fix panic-at-boot

Paul Mackerras:
  o PPC64: Update the _syscallN macros to indicate the correct clobbers
  o PPC64: Ensure we get the correct error_code passed to do_page_fault
  o PPC64: Fix alignment in vmlinux.lds
  o PPC64: Make kernel RAM user-inaccessible on iSeries
  o PPC64: Fix compilation of sys_ppc32.c

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