Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 2.5.38, which was released by Linus on September 21. It contains a bunch of IA-64 updates, more partition handling and filesystem work, a JFS update, some IDE changes, and a few important bug fixes. The long-format changlog is available with the details.

Linus released 2.5.37 on September 20. Among other things, this release included a bunch more memory management and performance work from Andrew Morton, James Bottomley's x86 "subarchitecture" work (finally), an ACPI update, more threading performance work, an IrDA update, some IDE and block I/O enhancements, some device model work, various architecture updates, and the removal of Keith Owens from the MAINTAINERS file. Again, see the long-format changelog for the details.

Linus's BitKeeper tree, which will become 2.5.39, contains some preemptible kernel fixes, a temporary disk elevator fix to deal with some performance problems (see below for the likely form of the real fix), some thread fixups, a USB update, more VM and block I/O work, an ISDN update, the removal of the global blk_size array (Al Viro: "it is an ex-parrot"), and various other fixes and updates.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.19; there have been no 2.4.20 prepatches or -ac patches over the last week.

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