Kernel release status

[Posted June 16, 2004 by corbet]

The current 2.6 kernel is 2.6.7, which was announced by Linus on June 15. Changes since the last release candidate include a fix for the latest denial of service vulnerability (see below), an NTFS update, some more CPU frequency controller work, and lots of fixes. The biggest changes since 2.6.6 include scheduling domains, a big rework of the reverse-mapping VM code, filtered waitqueues, the removal of the InterMezzo filesystem, quota and extended attribute support in reiserfs, a new API for NUMA systems, the removal of IDE tagged command queueing support, and the usual pile of fixes. See the long-format changelog for the details.

Linus's BitKeeper repository contains no patches beyond 2.6.7 as of this writing.

The current tree from Andrew Morton is 2.6.7-rc3-mm2. Recent additions to -mm include ext3 resizing support (see below), a O_NOATIME option to open(), and various fixes.

The current 2.4 prepatch is 2.4.27-pre6, which was released on June 15. It includes the FPU denial of service fix, of course, along with some architecture updates, DVD-RW write support, and a fair number of fixes.

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Kernel release status

Posted Jun 17, 2004 22:35 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link] (1 responses)

Could someone fill me in on what PrivoxyWindowOpen() is?

I see it come up in numerous contexts. Python programs. Perl programs. Browsers. And now the kernel. Not to mention the privoxy http proxy. Nobody ever explains what it is and googling hasn't helped.

What is it?

Thanks
Steve Bergman

PrivoxyWindowOpen()

Posted Jun 18, 2004 15:11 UTC (Fri) by andyhow (guest, #1625) [Link]

The privixy http proxy attempts to block popup ads in by rewriting javascript calls in the page. The code is not very smart and has a habit of rewriting function names in the main text of a page. You should turn this feature (the 'unsolicited-popups' filter) off in the privoxy config file and use a browser with built-in popup blocking instead.