Linux creator Linus Torvalds released the much anticipated 2.6.11 Linux kernel declaring, "so it's now _officially_ all bug-free." Though bugs are certain to still remain, quite a bit of effort was made to stabalize this release. On February 12'th, Linus uploaded 2.6.11-rc4 [story] containing only fixes, planning to follow it with the official 2.6.11 release. However, instead it was followed on February 23'rd by 2.6.11-rc5 [story] to deal with "some laptop resource conflicts, various ppc TLB flush issues, some possible stack overflows in networking and a number of other details". Today's release contained minimal changes, "mostly some fixes from various code checkers".

The 2.6.11 patch to the 2.6.10 kernel is about 4MB compressed, and it or the entire 2.6.11 kernel can be obtained from your nearest kernel.org mirror. The kernel makefile still contains the name Woozy Numbat, as given for the 2.6.10 release last Christmas eve [story]. Read on for the relatively short changelog since 2.6.11-rc5.

Following two months after the release of the 2.6.9 Zonked Quokka Linux kernel [story], Linux creator Linus Torvalds released Woozy Numbat, the 2.6.10 kernel. He summarizes:

"Ok, with a lot of people taking an xmas break, here's something to play with over the holidays (not to mention an excuse for me to get into the Glögg for real ;)

"Mostly a lot of small fixes since 2.6.10-rc3, with the biggest thing being probably the CIFS update and the switch-over to the new DVB frontend driver world order. Some MMC and USB work too, and ARM updates as usual."

Further information can be found in the release announcements for 2.6.10-rc1 [story], 2.6.10-rc2 [story], and 2.6.10-rc3 [story], as well as in the complete changelog. The latest version of the kernel can be downloaded from your nearest kernel.org mirror. Read on for the list of changes since 2.6.10-rc3.