[Announce] New kernel release: kernel 2.6.24-ovz005.1

Kir Kolyshkin kir at openvz.org
Mon May 26 09:20:34 EDT 2008


OpenVZ project has released an updated 2.6.24 based kernel.
Read below for more information. Everybody who is using
this kernel branch is advised to upgrade.


Changes
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* rebase to 2.6.24.7 kernel to accomodate influx of CVE fixes
* fix for checkpointing and restore of processes which done shmat(2)
* epoll(2) fix in CPT to checkpoint some Fedora template
* fix crash when /vz is on NFS export
* restore plethora of /proc/net/* files inside VE which userspace 
utilities relies on.
* fix long standing dcache accounting misinteraction with SLUB
* fix occasional oopses when reading /proc/net/{udp,tcp}
* fix minor lockdep warnings

For the complete list of changes in this release, see
http://git.openvz.org/?p=linux-2.6.24-openvz;a=log;h=v2.6.24-ovz005

NOTE that this is development kernel branch.


Compatibility
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* No new issues


Download
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http://wiki.openvz.org/Download/kernel/2.6.24/2.6.24-ovz005.1


Bug reporting
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Use http://bugzilla.openvz.org/ to report any bugs found.


Other sources of info on updates
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See http://wiki.openvz.org/News to view all the news (including updates)
online. There you can also find RSS/Atom feed links.


Regards,
  OpenVZ team.


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