Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.11-rc2, released by Linus on January 21. Changes this time around include some networking updates (including a "fix" for a NETIF_F_LLTX race condition which was subsequently withdrawn), an ALSA update (to version 1.0.8), some enhancements to the "circular pipe buffers" code introduced in -rc1, the ioctl() method rework, in-inode extended attributes for ext3, some additions to the completion API, some spinlock changes, and fixes for the latest round of security problems. The long-format changelog has the details.

The flow of patches into Linus's BitKeeper repository has slowed as things begin to stabilize for the 2.6.11 release. Changes merged since -rc2 include some architecture updates, the removal of bcopy(), a fix for writable module parameters in sysfs (it never actually worked before), and various fixes.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.11-rc2-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include some random driver reworking, the POSIX high-resolution timers patch set, ACL support for the NFS client, the isochronous CPU scheduler (see below), and some crypto API work.

The current 2.4 kernel is 2.4.29; no 2.4.30 prepatches have been released.

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