Less than one week after the 3.6-RC7 release, Linus Torvalds informed that 3.6 Final is set to go 
Some of the highlights in the latest version:
Hybrid sleep
Offering a combination of sleep mode and hibernation, what's commonly known as “hybrid sleep” involves both copying the contents of RAM to the hard drive, as in hibernation, and then entering sleep mode. The big benefit to using this technique is that the computer can not only resume immediately, but it also won't lose any data if power is lost.
If power is interrupted, the device will resume from the hibernated image; if not, it will resume normally and the hibernation image will be discarded. In Linux 3.6 this feature was added primarily with portable devices in mind
'TCP Fast Open'
"TCP Fast Open" is a Google-developed feature that tweaks the process of establishing a TCP connection so as to make it quicker in certain cases. In Linux 3.6, there is now support for this feature on the client side; server support is still to come. The result, according to the release notes, can be speed improvements of between 4 percent and 41 percent in page load times on popular websites.
More and better drivers
Linux kernel updates pretty much always add a raft of drivers for better hardware support, and Linux 3.6 is no exception. Of particular note among those included in this release are drivers targeting Sony and Apple vendor-specific devices. And who else? nVidia, yeah, now that they get on with the program
Improved memory management
Among several changes designed to improve memory management, finally, is a new feature that allows swap read-ahead IOPS (input/output operations per second) to be merged, thereby improving throughput while also lowering CPU consumption.
Full change log can be read here
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.6
cheers ...
Some of the highlights in the latest version:
Hybrid sleep
Offering a combination of sleep mode and hibernation, what's commonly known as “hybrid sleep” involves both copying the contents of RAM to the hard drive, as in hibernation, and then entering sleep mode. The big benefit to using this technique is that the computer can not only resume immediately, but it also won't lose any data if power is lost.
If power is interrupted, the device will resume from the hibernated image; if not, it will resume normally and the hibernation image will be discarded. In Linux 3.6 this feature was added primarily with portable devices in mind
'TCP Fast Open'
"TCP Fast Open" is a Google-developed feature that tweaks the process of establishing a TCP connection so as to make it quicker in certain cases. In Linux 3.6, there is now support for this feature on the client side; server support is still to come. The result, according to the release notes, can be speed improvements of between 4 percent and 41 percent in page load times on popular websites.
More and better drivers
Linux kernel updates pretty much always add a raft of drivers for better hardware support, and Linux 3.6 is no exception. Of particular note among those included in this release are drivers targeting Sony and Apple vendor-specific devices. And who else? nVidia, yeah, now that they get on with the program
Improved memory management
Among several changes designed to improve memory management, finally, is a new feature that allows swap read-ahead IOPS (input/output operations per second) to be merged, thereby improving throughput while also lowering CPU consumption.
Full change log can be read here
http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.6
cheers ...
