Linux 3.19 has been released on Sun, 8 Feb 2015
Summary: This release adds support for Btrfs scrubbing and fast device replacement with RAID 5 and 6, support for the Intel Memory Protection Extensions that help to stop buffer overflows, support for the AMD HSA architecture, support for the debugging ARM Coresight subsystem, support for the Altera Nios II CPU architecture, networking infrastructure for routing and switching offloading, Device Tree Overlays that help to support expansion busses found on consumer development boards like the Beaglebone or Raspberry Pi, support for hole punching and preallocation in NFSv4.2, and the Android binder has been moved from the staging area to stable. There are also new drivers and many other small improvements.
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Prominent features
- Btrfs: support scrubbing and fast device replacement in RAID 5 and 6
- Support for the Intel Memory Protection Extensions
- HSA driver for AMD GPU devices
- Android binder moved to stable
- ARM Coresight support
- New architecture: Altera Nios II processors
- Device Tree overlays
- Networking: support for routing and switching offloading
- NFSv4.2 support for hole punching and preallocation
- Drivers and architectures
- File systems
- Memory management
- Block
- Core (various)
- Cryptography
- Virtualization
- Security
- Tracing & perf
- Networking
- List of merges