Linux 3.0 release

From:          Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To:          Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject:          Linux 3.0 release
Date:          Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:59:53 -0700
Message-ID:          <CA+55aFxakA2U+oMJ1T7awTYa+p6xp9N0aCbfrUqgkF7BJ8gnQw@mail.gmail.com>
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So there it is. Gone are the 2.6.<bignum> days, and 3.0 is out.

This obviously also opens the merge window for the next kernel, which
will be 3.1. The stable team will take the third digit, so 3.0.1 will
be the first stable release based on 3.0.

As already mentioned several times, there are no special landmark
features or incompatibilities related to the version number change,
it's simply a way to drop an inconvenient numbering system in honor of
twenty years of Linux. In fact, the 3.0 merge window was calmer than
most, and apart from some excitement from RCU I'd have called it
really smooth. Which is not to say that there may not be bugs, but if
anything, there are hopefully fewer than usual, rather than the normal
".0" problems.

And as I already mentioned yesterday, I'm hoping the 3.1 merge window
will be calm too, because due to the delays the latter half of the
merge window will fall into my vacation time. I briefly considered
simply waiting two extra weeks, but quite frankly, that wouldn't
really have solved anything (it would have made the merge window
instead fall into LinuxCon and my divemaster weekends).

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