Linux 3.1 released · DIGIT-ARC

Summary from Linux 3.1 - Linux Kernel Newbies

Prominent features

New architecture: OpenRISC

Dynamic writeback throttling

Filesystem barriers enabled by default in Ext3

Support for Near-Field Communication

Slab allocator speedups

VFS Scalability improvements

New iSCSI implementation

cpupowerutils

Software RAID: Bad block management

Personality to report 2.6.x version numbers

Wii Controller support

Driver and architecture-specific changes

Memory management

Networking

File systems

Block layer

Crypto

Virtualization

Security

Tracing/profiling

Various core changes

More news:
Linux 3.1 released with NFC support - News - Linux for Devices

Linus Torvalds git commit

Download - ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.1.tar.bz2

Last update they had added Kinect support, this time they have added Wii controller support. Why is that. No one seems to be doing anything with the support.

The new Linux 3.0 kernel in all its shiny awesomeness will be finding its way into your favourite distro any day now. So what does this major milestone release contain to justify the jump in version number?

Inside the Linux kernel 3.0 | News | TechRadar UK

baccilus said:
Last update they had added Kinect support, this time they have added Wii controller support. Why is that. No one seems to be doing anything with the support.

People are doing all sorts of things with Kinect! It has the potential to be used with almost every electronic appliances which can be control remotely!

Offtopic:

It'd be cool if someone added gesture support based on inputs from a webcam instead of a device.
Imagine showing the middle finger to the laptop and it turns off

Ontopic:

3.1 ALREADY ?? What happened to the good old days of not bumping subversions till something really really really radical or major happens, and reserving odd numbers for test releases and even numbers for main releases ?

Linus dumped that convention long ago.