Linux 2.6.30 is currently in development. The release candidate -rc1 was released the 7 April 2009, closing the merge window.

This page is, obviously, a Work in progress.

Summary:

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1. Prominent features (the cool stuff)

2. Various core changes

• Scheduler
• Memory management

3. Wi-Fi

4. Security

5. Networking

6. Tracing

7. Filesystems

• Ext4

8. Crypto

9. DM/MD

10. Virtualization

11. Architecture-specific changes

• X86
• ARM
• PPC
• SH
• S390
• Blackfin
• MIPS
• SPARC
• AVR32

12. Drivers

12.1. Storage

• SATA:
• IDE
• SCSI

12.2. Graphics

12.3. Network

12.4. Input

12.5. Sound

• Alsa System on Chip

12.6. V4L/DVB

12.7. USB

• == HWMON ==

12.8. Watchdog

12.9. RTC

12.10. HID

12.11. MTD

12.12. MFD

12.13. Power

12.14. Serial

12.15. Various

13. Other sources about 2.6.30 kernel

• Heise Online's Kernel Log
• Linux Weekly news :

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