The purpose of this page is tracking and explaining the features added in every release, just like the [http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.php/DragonFly_Status Dragonfly people did].

It'd be nice if kernel hackers would spend some minutes adding their stuff here. The one place where you can find a comparable changelog are the fabulous LWN kernel articles: http://lwn.net/Kernel/, or the [http://lwn.net/Articles/driver-porting/ driver porting guide] - but there's no reason why the kernel community shouldn't embrace and extend those efforts ;)

TODO:
 * Import (and extend, explain, etc) LWN's [http://lwn.net/Articles/2.6-kernel-api/ list of 2.6 API changes] (need to ask for permission?)
 * Import [http://kernelnewbies.org/status/latest.html Kernelnewbies status] list
 * Import relevant data from [http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/post-halloween-2.5.txt davej's post halloween document]
 * Keep track of what gets changed



2.6.14:

2.6.13:
  * x86 now uses the generic PCI bus setup code for assigning unassigned resources
  * [http://lwn.net/Articles/104343/ inotify] 
  * Support for the Xtensa architecture
  * [http://lwn.net/Articles/108595/ kexec and kdump]
  * [http://lwn.net/Articles/135472/ Execute-in-place support]
  * [http://lwn.net/Articles/145973/ build-time configurable clock interrupt frequency]
  * [http://lwn.net/Articles/143474/ Improved CFQ IO scheduler]
  * Voluntary preemption patches
  * Removal of the devfs configuration option

2.6.12:
  * [http://lwn.net/Articles/140164/ API changes]
  * New driver for the "trusted computing" (TPM) crap^Wchip
  * [http://www.superh.com/products/shyway.htm SuperHyway bus support]
  * Multilevel security implementation for SELinux
  * [http://lwn.net/Articles/124703/ device mapper multipath support]
  * [http://lwn.net/Articles/121845/ Address space randomization]
  * Restore the Philips webcam driver
  * I/O barrier support for serial ATA drives
  * [http://lwn.net/Articles/134460/ "resource limits"]
  * [http://lwn.net/Articles/127936/ cpusets]
  * Remove IPV6 "experimental" status

2.6.11:

2.6.10:

2.6.9:

2.6.8:

2.6.7:

2.6.6:

2.6.5:

2.6.4:

2.6.3:

2.6.2:

2.6.1:

2.6.0:

2.6.0-test9:
  * [http://lwn.net/Articles/44243/ libata driver architecture]	(Jeff Garzik)

2.6.0-test6:
  * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104344596912094&w=2 32-bit dev_t] (Andries Brouwer, Al Viro)

2.6.0-test3:
  * [http://www.nsa.gov/selinux/index.html SELinux] (Stephen Smalley, SELinux team)

2.6.0-test1:
  * [http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ Linux Virtual Server layer] (Wensong Zhang)

2.5.75:
  * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mm&m=104529418208788&w=2 Anticipatory Scheduler] (Nick Piggin, Andrew Morton)

2.5.71:
  * [http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104981044405395&w=2 Switch the IDE I/O layers to taskfile](Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Alan Cox)

2.5.70:
  * [http://www.linux-usb.org/gadget USB gadget support] (David Brownell, Stuart Lynne, Greg Kroah-Hartman)

2.5.69:
  * [http://lwn.net/Articles/29555/ New interrupt handling API]	(Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, etc.)

2.5.65:
  * [http://www.kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=603 Desktop Interactivity Improvements] (Linus Torvalds, Ingo Molnar)

2.5.63:
  * [http://high-res-timers.sourceforge.net/ POSIX timers] (George Anzinger)

2.5.60:
  * New modversions implementation (Kai Germaschewski)
  * 64-bit jiffies 	(Tim Schmielau)

2.5.59:
  * [http://home.arcor.de/efocht/sched/ NUMA aware scheduler extensions] (Erich Focht, Michael Hohnbaum, Martin Bligh)

2.5.57:
  * [http://www.zipworld.com.au/~akpm/linux/schedlat.html Remove long-held locks for low scheduling latency] (Andrew Morton, etc.)

2.5.54:
  * [http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/ Add drivers for hardware health monitoring] (lm_sensors team)