Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 2.5.43, which was announced by Linus on October 15. He described this release as "a huge merging frenzy for the feature freeze." It includes the read-copy-update patch (described in the July 18 LWN Kernel Page), more network asynchronous I/O patches, SMP support for User-mode Linux, a version of the InterMezzo filesystem that works in 2.5, more memory management work, the removal of kiobufs (see below), JFS and XFS updates, an AFS filesystem implementation, the "oprofile" profiler, IBM "Summit" architecture support, an ARM update, and many other fixes and updates. The long-format changelog is also available.

2.5.42 was released on October 11. There was a lot of stuff in this patch, including NFS work, numerous patches from the -dj tree, the 64-bit sector ("large block device") patch, more asynchronous I/O patches, the IDE tagged command queueing patch, and a lot of other fixes and updates. See the long-format changelog for all the details.

The latest prepatch from Alan Cox is 2.5.42-ac1. He has taken a stand in the LVM debate (see below) by merging the LVM2 device mapper; other than that, this prepatch consists mostly of compilation fixes.

The current 2.5 status summary from Guillaume Boissiere is dated October 16.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.19. Marcelo took another step toward 2.4.20 with 2.4.20-pre11, which was released on October 15.

Alan Cox released 2.4.20-pre10-ac1 on October 10; the only item in the changelog is "resync with Marcelo."

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