Kernel release status

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Patches currently sitting in Linus's BitKeeper repository include fixes for the ELF loader security problems, kprobes support for the x86-64 architecture, a frame buffer device update, a set of user-mode Linux patches, an NTFS update, version 2.0 of the USB gadget serial driver, some kernel build tweaks (the preferred name for kernel makefiles is now Kbuild), the ext3 block reservation and online resizing patches, sysfs backing store, locking behavior annotations for the "sparse" utility, a reworking of spin lock initialization, the un-exporting of add_timer_on(), sys_lseek(), and a number of other kernel functions, an x86 signal delivery optimization, an IDE update, I/O space write barrier support, a frame buffer driver update, more scheduler tweaks, some big kernel lock preemption patches, a large number of architecture updates, and lots of fixes.

The current tree from Andrew Morton is 2.6.10-rc1-mm4. The biggest recent change in -mm, perhaps, is the inclusion of the four-level page table patch in 2.6.10-rc1-mm3 and subsequent fixes in -mm4; Andrew has stated that he expects to merge four-level page tables in the near future. Other changes include support for the FRV architecture, some scheduler tweaks, the un-exporting of cdev_get() and cdev_put(), a number of architecture updates, and the usual pile of fixes.

The current 2.4 prepatch is 2.4.28-rc2, released by Marcelo on November 7. It contains some networking updates and a patch for a (difficult to exploit) security problem; if nothing new turns up, it will become the official 2.4.28 release.