Linux Kernel 2.6.39 Officially Released

Among the newest features included in Linux kernel 2.6.39, we can mention the new drivers for high-end graphics card AMD, ipsets to simplify firewall maintenance and implementation, improved filesystem EXT4, new drivers for better hardware support, and many bug fixes.
The following is a statement of Linus Torvalds in the official announcement.

"So it's delayed A Few days, and I really was struggling with the decision of whether I wanted to cut a final release at all: it Could Easily have made more sense to just do an-rc8."

"However, since I'm going to be at LinuxCon Japan in two weeks, the choice for me whether I ended up Should just release, or drag it out * three * more weeks, or have Some really messy merge window with a break in. Between."

 Some Highlights of the Linux Kernel 2.6.39

• Cayman Family Support for AMD graphics chips (Radeon HD 6790-6970) - 2D and 3D acceleration is still not available;
• Z compression support for the Nouveau driver;
• Better support for GMA500 Intel chips;
• Support for next-get ipset;
• Support for Intel 2000 series WLAN chips;
• Implemented asynchronous processing for KVM page faults;
• Forced Threaded Interrupt Handlers;
• The Multiple Page-IO Submissions option is Used by default for filesystems to improv EXT4 scalability and performance;
• Discard Batched Added functionality to the Btrfs filesystem, for SDD unused information storage areas;
• New Pstore (platform-persistent storage) filesystem;
• Extended Lio target implementation, for SPC-4 SCSI emulations;
• Support for Intel's "Panther Points" chipsets;
• Improved SCSI Logical Block Provisioning interfaces;
• Support for USB 3.0 hubs;
• Terratec DMX USB drivers 6Fire;
• Griffin FireWave drivers surround sound system;
• Technisat USB 2.0 drivers DVB-S/S2 receiver;
• Divio webcam drivers;
• Sabi drivers;
• WMI recent drivers for ASUS netbooks.

Download Stable Kernel 2.6.39