Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.11-rc4, released by Linus on February 12. This prepatch, intended to be the last before 2.6.11 is released, is dominated by small fixes; it also contains some architecture updates, a serial ATA blacklist (for poorly-behaved drives), some extra checking for read() and write() calls (covered in last week's Kernel Page), a largish Radeon framebuffer update, and an IDE update. The long-format changelog has the details.

Linus's BitKeeper repository contains a handful of fixes, including a patch for a few memset() calls in the S/390 code which had the arguments reversed - and somehow seemed to work anyway.

The current -mm prepatch is 2.6.11-rc3-mm2. Recent changes to -mm include the addition of the realtime Linux security module, an NFS update, and various fixes.

The current 2.4 prepatch is 2.4.30-pre1, released by Marcelo on February 10. As would be expected for a kernel in deep maintenance mode, this prepatch contains a relatively small set of fixes and a couple of driver updates.

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