Linux Kernel 3.2 Released

After spending for about 2,5 months in development tree, finally the final version of the next Linux kernel is released by Linux Torvalds in January 2012. As usual, there has been a lot of new exciting stuffs in this new kernel after being cooked by thousands of developers for the last 2.5 months around the world. Here are some of them (Taken from KernelNewbies):

• Ext4: Support for bigger block sizes
• Btrfs: Faster scrubbing, automatic backup of tree roots, detailed corruption messages, manual inspection of metadata
• Process bandwith controller
• New architecture: Hexagon
• Thin provisioning and recursive snapshots in the Device Mapper
• I/O-less dirty throttling, reduce filesystem writeback from page reclaim
• TCP Proportional Rate Reduction
• Improved live profiling tool "perf top"
• Cross memory attach

For those who would like to see if their new hardware can be detected by this version, have a look on the Driver page.