New -rc releases for 2.6 and 2.4

After merging an unbelievable pile of patches, Linus has announced the availability of 2.6.10-rc1. Changes from 2.6.9 include a big USB update, the kernel events notification mechanism, the switchable I/O schedulers patch (and a new version of the CFQ scheduler), an NTFS update, in-kernel keyring management, an IRQ subsystem code rework, version 17 of the wireless extension API, the BSD secure levels module, an NFSv4 update, some scheduler tweaks, DVD+RW and CDRW packet writing support, lots of networking changes, and a number of architecture updates. Internal API changes include a new atomic_inc_return() function, changing most of the core device model functions to be exported GPL-only, the removal of the "BIO walking" helper functions, changing remap_page_range() to remap_pfn_range(), and a new generic circular buffer type (covered in this week's Kernel Page. See the long-format changelog for the details.

Meanwhile, Marcelo has announced the first 2.4.28 release candidate. A relatively small set of fixes has been added since -pre4.

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