Kernel release status

[Posted May 3, 2006 by corbet]

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.16.13, released on May 2. This release contains a single patch for a denial of service problem in the SCTP code. 2.6.16.12 had been released the day before with a couple dozen important fixes.

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.17-rc3, released by Linus on April 26, several milliseconds after the LWN Weekly Edition was published. As expected, the changes were mostly fixes, but this prepatch also adds support for version 1.2 trusted platform modules, multiple page size support for the PA-RISC architecture, and the new vmsplice() system call (see below). See the long-format changelog for the details.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.17-rc3-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include some red-black tree optimizations, a new set of page migration patches, some RAID (MD) improvements, the likely() macro profiler (see below), the long-delayed removal of devfs, and some memory hotplug work.

For 2.4 users, 2.4.33-pre3 is out; it was announced by Marcelo on May 1. It contains a small number of fixes, a number of which are security-related.

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Cheers for filtering the firehose

Posted May 4, 2006 22:29 UTC (Thu) by bignose (subscriber, #40) [Link] (1 responses)

> The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.17-rc3, released by Linus on April 26,
> several milliseconds after the LWN Weekly Edition was published.

Heh. I don't envy the job of an LWN editor; this is a very fast-moving field, and putting together a weekly update must be a frustratingly impossible, where the term "up-to-date" is met with sardonic laughter.

The efforts are very much appreciated; the results are superb.

Cheers for filtering the firehose

Posted May 11, 2006 10:10 UTC (Thu) by Zenith (guest, #24899) [Link]

Seconded!

And while perhaps not the most envied job, Jon's touch makes for most entertaining reading :)