Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 2.5.36, which was released by Linus on September 17. The big news was, of course, is the merge of the XFS journaling filesystem. There's also the x86 "huge page" patch, an IEEE-1394 ("Firewire") update, a big USB update (converting the code to the new driver model scheme), an IDE update, and various other fixes. See the long-format changelog for the details.

Linus has had a busy week; 2.5.35 was released on September 15. This (large) patch included, among other things, the merge of User-mode Linux, a large IDE update, various memory management improvements, more threading improvements, a bunch of NFS server patches and PPC64 and SPARC updates. Again, the long-format changelog has the details.

Linus's BitKeeper tree, which will become 2.5.37, has some block I/O work, some RPC fixes, a bit of memory management work, and Linus's simple solution to the get_pid() problem (see below).

The current 2.5 Status Summary from Guillaume Boissere is dated September 17.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.19; Marcelo released 2.4.20-pre7 on September 12. Big MIPS and IA-64 updates make up the bulk of the patch this time around, along with a relatively small set of other fixes.

Alan Cox's current prepatch is 2.4.20-pre7-ac2. The IDE work continues; this patch also contains a number of other, unrelated fixes.

The current ancient kernel is 2.2.22, which was released by Alan Cox on September 16. It contains a few security fixes, so people still running 2.2 will probably want to have a look at this update.

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