2.6.11
Released March 2, 2005 changelog
Conversion to 4-level page tables (LWN article) (commit)
New Pipe implementation (LWN article)
"Big Kernel Semaphore": Turns the Big Kernel Lock into a semaphore (LWN article) (commit)
Introduces the CAP_AUDIT_WRITE and CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL capabilities (commit)
Support for Extended Attributes in the body of large inode in ext3: saves space and improves performance in some cases (commit)
Add /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type (commit)
Remove bitmaps from the buddy allocator (commit)
AMD Dual-core support (commit)
Add Fujitsu FR-V CPU architecture (commit)
TCP port randomization (commit)
- SATA support for Intel ICH7
DebugFS (LWN article)
Infiniband support (LWN article)
Remove UMSDOS (commit)
- Major problems with TCP/IP BIC (the default congestion control) are resolved