June 30, 2003

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o in 2.5.69  New interrupt handling API  (Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, etc.)  
o in 2.5.70  USB gadget support  (David Brownell, Stuart Lynne, Greg Kroah-Hartman)  
o in 2.5.71  Switch the IDE I/O layers to taskfile  (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz, Alan Cox)  

o in -mm  Anticipatory Scheduler  (Nick Piggin, Andrew Morton)  
o in -mm  64-bit dev_t  (Andries Brouwer, Al Viro)  
o in -mm  Complete Fair Queueing (CFQ) disk scheduler  (Jens Axboe, Andrea Arcangeli)  

o in -osdl Build option for Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) (Karim Yaghmour)

o before 2.6.0  Support insane number of groups  (Tim Hockin)  
o before 2.6.0  Worldclass support for IPv6  (Alexey Kuznetsov, Dave Miller, Jun Murai, Yoshifuji Hideaki, USAGI team)  
o before 2.6.0  Reiserfs v4  (Reiserfs team)  
o before 2.6.0  Fix device naming issues  (Patrick Mochel, Greg Kroah-Hartman)  
o before 2.6.0  Change all drivers to new driver model  (All maintainers)  
o before 2.6.0  Improved AppleTalk stack  (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)  
o before 2.6.0  ext2/ext3 online resize support  (Andreas Dilger)  
o before 2.6.0  UDF Write support for CD-R/RW (packet writing)  (Jens Axboe, Peter Osterlund)  
o before 2.6.0  Kexec, syscall to load kernel from kernel  (Eric Biederman)  

The full list of features being worked on is at:
http://www.kernelnewbies.org/status

Feedback and corrections always welcome.
Cheers,

-- Guillaume