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> The block IO cleanups are important, and that was the major thing _I_ 
> personally wanted from the 2.5.x tree when it was opened. I agree with you 
> there. But I don't think they are major-number-material.

I'd definitely have voted for stable IPV6 being a 3.0.x requirement, but I guess it's a bit late now :-/

> Anyway, people who are having VM trouble with the current 2.5.x series, 
> please _complain_, and tell what your workload is. Don't sit silent and 
> make us think we're good to go.. And if Ingo is right, I'll do the 3.0.x 
> thing.

I think the broken IDE in 2.5.x has meant that it got seriously less testing overall than previous development trees :-(.  Maybe after halloween when it stabilises a bit more we'll get more reports in.

John