Linux Released

http://www.techienews.co.uk/9711501/linux-3-15-rc5-released/
Linux 3.15-rc5 released

            Linus Torvalds has released Linux 3.15-rc5 a day ahead of its normal schedule as the Linux guru was travelling over the weekend.

The latest release candidate is bigger than its predecessors – Linux 3.15-rc3 and rc4 – something that is not highly unlikely, but worth mentioning none the least as release candidates tend to be smaller as they get closer to the final release.
              Torvalds does make a note about the bigger size of rc5, but he is quick to point out that he is feeling good about rc5 considering that it packs fixes to dcache list corruption that was pending since rc4.
              “The interesting dcache list corruption I mentioned as being pending for rc4 is in, and it would be lovely if you have any VFS layer stress-testing that interacts with memory pressure, but the race was tiny to begin with, and the fix actually cleaned things up a lot and removed more lines than it added, so I feel good about it”, notes Torvalds in the release announcement.
The latest release candidate packs updates and fixes to multiple other things including drivers (55 percent), architecture (20 percent) and miscellaneous file system, core networking among other things (25 percent).
              Peeking at the change log one finds that multiple things have been fixed including the global suspend on ATI controllers, spinlock variant, segfault in Invensens MPU driver due to null dereference, and reboot issue for Certec BPC600 among other things. Further, a workaround for dropped packets in Gig/100 speeds on 82579 has also been implemented.