Kernel release status

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.11.6, which was released (with a handful of security patches) on March 25.

The current 2.6.12 prepatch remains 2.6.12-rc1; no 2.6.12 prepatches have been released in the last week.

Linus's BitKeeper repository contains a number of architecture updates, an XFS update, some netpoll improvements, a new __nocast annotation which allows "sparse" to catch certain type mismatches, a change from io_remap_page_range() to io_remap_pfn_range(), and lots of fixes.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.12-rc1-mm3. Recent changes to -mm include the addition of David Miller's networking tree and Herbert Xu's crypto tree, some core page table handling cleanups, a big DVB update, a number of cleanups to the (ugly and insecure) ISO9660 filesystem code, and lots of fixes.

The current 2.4 prepatch is 2.4.30-rc4, released by Marcelo on March 30 with a couple of regression fixes. Previously, 2.4.30-rc3 was released on March 26. The -rc3 patch contained a single fix to a serious problem introduced in 2.4.30-rc2 which had been released (with several fixes) the day before.

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