Kernel release status

The current stable 2.6 release remains 2.6.11.10. The 2.6.11.11 process is underway, however, and that version (with a number of x86_64 patches and a few other fixes) may be out by the time you read this.

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.12-rc5, released (without an announcement) on May 25. It includes a few security patches, some architecture updates, and a number of fixes; see the long-format changelog for the details.

The current -mm release is 2.6.12-rc5-mm1. Recent additions to -mm include the OCFS2 filesystem (see below), the dynamic scheduling domains patch (smarter scheduling on large SMP systems), the Red Hat distributed lock manager (covered here last week), a number of KProbes enhancements, a new try_to_del_timer_sync() function, the execute in place patches, Tensilica Xtensa architecture support, the voluntary preemption patch, and lots of fixes.

The current 2.4 prepatch is 2.4.31-rc1, released by Marcelo on May 25. A couple dozen new patches have been merged; most of them are networking fixes and a new bcm5752 driver.

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