This is the latest release of the ixgbe driver for Linux, which supports kernel versions up through 2.6.38. 

changes in this release:

- Limit VF access to network traffic
- Disable packet split for 82599
- RPM spec file clean up
- Fix Rx of jumbo frames with SR-IOV enabled
- Cleanup of support addition/removal of ntuple filters
- Add checks to guard against fake Tx hangs due to Xoff packets
- Fix typos in README
- Add _GFP_NOWARN to alloc_skb() to avoid OOM killer
- Update support for X540
- Report PCIe bandwidth in gigatransfers instead of gigabytes
- Support for Dell CEM
- Update copyright
- Fix setting and reporting of advertised speeds via ethtool
- Update handling of Flow Director hash and perfect filters
- Reduce the verbosity of the driver at boot
- Update VF Tx rate limit restrictions
- Use usleep_range() instead of msleep() for time periods <20ms
- Allow DCB and perfect filers to co-exist