This is a list of links to every changelog.

4.x

• Linux_4.19 Released 22 October, 2018 (71 days)

• Linux_4.18 Released 12 August, 2018 (70 days)

• Linux_4.17 Released 3 Jun, 2018 (63 days)

• Linux_4.16 Released 1 Apr, 2018 (73 days)

• Linux_4.15 Released 18 January, 2018 (77 days)

• Linux_4.14 Released 12 November, 2017 (70 days)

• Linux_4.13 Released 3 September, 2017 (63 days)

• Linux_4.12 Released 2 July, 2017 (63 days)

• Linux_4.11 Released 30 April, 2017 (70 days)

• Linux_4.10 Released 19 February, 2017 (70 days)

• Linux_4.9 Released 11 December, 2016 (70 days)

• Linux_4.8 Released 2 October, 2016 (70 days)

• Linux_4.7 Released 24 July, 2016 (70 days)

• Linux_4.6 Released 15 May, 2016 (63 days)

• Linux_4.5 Released 13 March, 2016 (63 days)

• Linux_4.4 Released 10 January, 2016 (70 days)

• Linux_4.3 Released 1 November, 2015 (63 days)

• Linux_4.2 Released 30 August, 2015 (70 days)

• Linux_4.1 Released 21 June, 2015 (70 days)

• Linux_4.0 Released 12 April, 2015 (63 days)

3.x

• Linux_3.19 Released 8 February, 2015 (63 days)

• Linux_3.18 Released 7 December, 2014 (63 days)

• Linux_3.17 Released 5 October, 2014 (63 days)

• Linux_3.16 Released 3 August, 2014 (56 days)

• Linux_3.15 Released 8 June, 2014 (70 days)

• Linux_3.14 Released 30 March, 2014 (70 days)

• Linux_3.13 Released 19 January, 2014 (78 days)

• Linux_3.12 Released 2 November, 2013 (61 days)

• Linux_3.11 Released 2 September, 2013 (64 days)

• Linux_3.10 Released 30 June, 2013 (63 days)

• Linux_3.9 Released 28 April, 2013 (69 days)

• Linux_3.8 Released 18 February, 2013 70 ( days)

• Linux_3.7 Released 10 December 2012 (71 days)

• Linux_3.6 Released 30 September, 2012 (71 days)

• Linux_3.5 Released 21 July, 2012 (62 days)

• Linux_3.4 Released 20 May, 2012 (63 days)

• Linux_3.3 Released 18 March, 2012 (74 days)

• Linux_3.2 Released 4 January, 2012 (72 days)

• Linux_3.1 Released 24 October, 2011 (95 days)

• Linux_3.0 Released 21 July, 2011 (64 days)

2.6.x

• Linux 2.6.39 Released 18 May, 2011 (65 days)

• Linux 2.6.38 Released 14 March, 2011 (69 days)

• Linux 2.6.37 Released 4 January, 2011 (76 days)

• Linux 2.6.36 Released 20 October, 2010 (80 days)

• Linux 2.6.35 Released 1 August, 2010 (76 days)

• Linux 2.6.34 Released 16 May, 2010 (81 days)

• Linux 2.6.33 Released 24 February, 2010 (83 days)

• Linux 2.6.32 Released 3 December, 2009 (84 days)

• Linux 2.6.31 Released 9 September, 2009 (92 days)

• Linux 2.6.30 Released 9 June, 2009 (77 days)

• Linux 2.6.29 Released 24 March, 2009 (89 days)

• Linux 2.6.28 Released 25 December, 2008 (77 days)

• Linux 2.6.27 Released 9 October, 2008 (88 days)

• Linux 2.6.26 Released 13 July, 2008 (87 days)

• Linux 2.6.25 Released 17 April, 2008 (84 days)

• Linux 2.6.24 Released 24 January, 2008 (107 days)

• Linux 2.6.23 Released 9 October, 2007 (93 days)

• Linux 2.6.22 Released 8 July, 2007 (73 days)

• Linux 2.6.21 Released 26 April, 2007 (80 days)

• Linux 2.6.20 Released 5 February, 2007 (68 days)

• Linux 2.6.19 Released 29 November, 2006 (70 days)

• Linux 2.6.18 Released 20 September, 2006 (95 days)

• Linux 2.6.17 Released 17 June, 2006 (88 days)

• Linux 2.6.16 Released 20 March, 2006 (76 days)

• Linux 2.6.15 Released 3 January, 2006 (68 days)

• Linux 2.6.14 Released 27 October, 2005 (59 days)

• Linux 2.6.13 Released 29 August, 2005 (73 days)

• Linux 2.6.12 Released 17 June, 2005 (107 days)

• Linux 2.6.11 Released 2 March, 2005 (68 days)

• Linux 2.6.10 Released 24 December, 2004 (66 days)

• Linux 2.6.9 Released 19 October, 2004 (66 days)

• Linux 2.6.8 Released 14 August, 2004 (59 days)

• Linux 2.6.7 Released 16 June, 2004 (37 days)

• Linux 2.6.6 Released 10 May, 2004 (36 days)

• Linux 2.6.5 Released 4 April, 2004 (24 days)

• Linux 2.6.4 Released 11 March, 2004 (22 days)

• Linux 2.6.3 Released 18 February, 2004 (14 days)

• Linux 2.6.2 Released 4 February, 2004 (26 days)

• Linux 2.6.1 Released 9 January, 2004 (22 days)

• Linux 2.6.0 Released 18 December, 2003

2.5.x

2.6.0-test9:

• Libata driver architecture (LWN article)

2.6.0-test6:

• 32-bit dev_t

• Direct I/O support for reiserfs

2.6.0-test3:

• SELinux

2.6.0-test1:

• Linux Virtual Server layer

2.5.75 released July 10, 2003:

• Anticipatory Scheduler

• "kblockd" kernel threads
• "nointegrity" JFS mount option

2.5.74 released July 2, 2003:

2.5.73 released June 22, 2003:

2.5.72 released June 17, 2003:

2.5.71 released June 14, 2003:

• Switch the IDE I/O layers to taskfile

2.5.70 released May 27, 2003:

• USB gadget support

2.5.69 released May 5, 2003:

• New interrupt handling API (LWN article)

• Runtime barrier instruction patching: Allows optimal performance on different processors without the need to ship multiple kernels

2.5.68 released April 20, 2003:

• Merging s390 and s390x into a single architecture
• Generation of hotplug events from kobject registration

2.5.67 released April 7, 2003:

2.5.66 released March 24, 2003:

2.5.65 released March 17, 2003:

• Desktop Interactivity Improvements

2.5.64 released March 5, 2003:

2.5.63 released February 24, 2003:

• POSIX timers

2.5.62 released February 17, 2003:

• Avoid dcache_lock while path walking

2.5.61 released February 15, 2003:

2.5.60 released February 10, 2003:

• New modversions implementation
• 64-bit jiffies

2.5.59 released Janury 17, 2003:

• NUMA aware scheduler extensions

2.5.58 released January 14, 2003:

2.5.57 released January 13, 2003:

• Remove long-held locks for low scheduling latency

2.5.56 released January 10, 2003:

2.5.55 released January 9, 2003:

2.5.54 released January 2, 2003:

• Add lm-sensors drivers for hardware health monitoring

• Support for AGP 3.0

2.5.53 released December 24, 2002:

• SYSENTER/SYSEXIT support: Systems that support the SYSENTER extension (Basically Intel Pentium-II and above, and AMD Athlons) now have a faster method of making the transition from userspace to kernelspace when a syscall is performed. Pentium Pro also has SYSENTER, but due to errata, is unusable. Need an updated glibc to use it.

2.5.52 released December 16, 2002:

2.5.51 released December 10, 2002:

• Rewrite of the console layer

• Compatibility syscall layer

2.5.50 released November 27, 2002:

2.5.49 released November 22, 2002:

2.5.48 released November 18, 2002:

• In-kernel module loader

2.5.47 released November 11, 2002:

• Zerocopy NFS

2.5.46 released November 4, 2002:

• Better I/O performance with epoll, (LWN article)

• Per-cpu hot & cold page lists

• MMU-less processor support (ucLinux)

• Replace initrd by initramfs

• Extended Attributes and ACLs for ext2/ext3

2.5.45 released October 31, 2002:

• New Linux configuration system: kconfig

• CryptoAPI

• IPSEC

• Digital Video Broadcasting (DVB) layer

• Device mapper for Logical Volume Manager (LVM2)

2.5.44 released October 19, 2002:

• New sysfs filesystem (formerly known as driverfs) (LWN article)

• Plug'N Play Layer Rewrite

• x86 BIOS Enhanced Disk Device (EDD) polling (LWN article)

2.5.43 released October 16, 2002:

• Andrew File System (AFS) support

• OProfile, a low-overhead profiler

• Read-Copy Update (RCU) Mutual Exclusion

• Add support for NFS v4

• Remove kiobufs

2.5.42 released October 12, 2002:

• NFS v4 support (commit), (announcement)

• ext2/ext3 large directory support: HTree index

• Add new CIFS (Common Internet File System)

• Remove the 2TB block device limit: Block devices can now access up to 16TB on 32-bit architectures, and up to 8EB on 64-bit architectures. statfs64() syscall added: statfs() couldn't handle it.

• Improved i2o (Intelligent Input/Ouput) layer

2.5.41 released October 7, 2002:

• NFS direct I/O (commit)

2.5.40 released October 1, 2002:

• Parallelizing page replacement

• NUMA topology support

• Add support for CPU clock/voltage scaling

2.5.39 released September 27, 2002:

• New IO scheduler ("deadline")

2.5.38 released September 22, 2002:

2.5.37 released September 20, 2002:

• Ethernet bridge tables support

• Remove the global tasklist

2.5.36 released September 18, 2002:

• Hugepage support

• XFS filesystem from SGI

2.5.35 released September 16, 2002:

• Serial ATA support

• Add User-Mode Linux (UML)

2.5.34 released September 9, 2002:

• POSIX threading support for signals

• discontigmem support (ia32)

2.5.33 released August 31, 2002:

• TCP segmentation offload

• SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol)

2.5.32 released August 27, 2002:

• Improved POSIX threading support

• Asynchronous IO (aio) support

• Porting all input devices over to input API
• New MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) driver

2.5.31 released August 11, 2002:

• Support insane number of processes
• Disk description cleanups
• Remove incomplete SPX network stack

2.5.30 released August 1, 2002:

• Remove khttpd

2.5.29 released July 27, 2002:

• Strict address space accounting

• Add Linux Security Module (LSM)

• Thread-Local Storage (TLS) support

2.5.28 released July 24, 2002:

• Remove the "Big IRQ lock"
• Serial driver restructure

2.5.27 released July 20, 2002:

• New VM with reverse mappings

2.5.26 releasaed July 16, 2002:

• Direct pagecache <-> BIO disk I/O

2.5.25 releaseed July 5, 2002:

• Faster internal kernel clock frequency

• Unified naming for disk devices

2.5.24 released June 20, 2002:

2.5.23 released June 19, 2002:

• Hotplug CPU support

• [http://web.archive.org/web/20030208091619/bazar.conectiva.com.br/~acme/patches/wip/ More complete IEEE 802.2 stack]

2.5.22 released June 17, 2002:

2.5.21 released June 9, 2002:

2.5.20 released June 3, 2002:

2.5.19 released May 29, 2002:

2.5.18 released May 25, 2002:

• Software suspend (to disk & RAM)

• ->getattr() ->setattr() ->permission() changes

2.5.17 released May 21, 2002:

• Move ISDN4linux to CAPI based interface

• New quota system supporting plugins

2.5.16 released May 18, 2002:

2.5.15 released May 9, 2002:

2.5.14 released May 6, 2002:

• Bluetooth support (no longer experimental!)

• Support for IDE TCQ (Tagged Command Queueing)

2.5.13 released May 3, 2002:

2.5.12 released May 1, 2002:

• Rewrite of the buffer layer

2.5.11 released April 29, 2002:

• Rewrite of the framebuffer layer

• Fast walk dcache

• Replace old NTFS driver with NTFS TNG driver

2.5.10 released April 24, 2002:

2.5.9 released April 22, 2002:

• Smarter IRQ balancing

2.5.8 released April 14, 2002:

• Radix-tree pagecache

• Syscall interface for CPU task affinity

2.5.7 released March 18, 2002:

• ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface)

• NAPI network interrupt mitigation

• Futexes (Fast Lightweight Userspace Semaphores

• Video for Linux (V4L) redesign

• New driver API for Wireless Extensions

2.5.6 released March 8, 2002:

• Unicode and large file support for smbfs

• HDLC (High-level Data Link Control) update

• per_cpu infrastructure

• Add JFS (Journaling FileSystem from IBM)

• Killing kdev_t for block devices

2.5.5 released February 20, 2002:

• New architecture: PowerPC 64-bit (ppc64)

• New architecture: AMD 64-bit (x86-64)

• Pagetables in highmem support

• Add ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture

2.5.4 released February 11, 2002:

• Support for Next Generation POSIX Threading

• Add preempt kernel option

• Per network protocol slabcache & sock.h

• Per filesystem slabcache & fs.h

2.5.3 released January 30, 2002:

• New driver model & unified device tree

• PnP BIOS driver

• Generic Extended Attribute support

• Support reiserfs external journal

• IDE layer update

• Untangle sched.h & fs.h include dependancies

• Break Configure.help into multiple files

2.5.2 released January 15, 2002:

• New kernel device structure (kdev_t)

• O(1) scheduler for improved scalability

• Filesystem per-process namespaces, late-boot cleanups

• Initial support for USB 2.0

2.5.1 December 17, 2001:

• VFS changes: Now it is possible to atomically move a subtree to another place, "mount --move olddir newdir"
• Rewrite of the block IO (bio) layer

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