Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch remains 2.6.12-rc5. Linus's git repository contains 200 or so patches; these are mostly fixes, but there is also a conversion of the IDE driver code to the device model, a new Broadcom bcm5706 gigabit driver, the removal of the Philips webcam decompression code, an IPv4 "alias promotion" feature (make a secondary interface address into the primary if the previous primary is deleted), and an updated CPU frequency subsystem.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.12-rc5-mm2. Recent changes to -mm include the pluggable congestion avoidance modules patch, some filesystem namespace patches, some scheduler tweaks, and lots of fixes.

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.11.11, released on May 27.

The current 2.4 kernel is 2.4.31, released by Marcelo on May 31. 2.4.31 contains quite a few fixes and some driver updates, but new features are no longer being added to 2.4.

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