Kernel release status

The current 2.6 kernel is 2.6.14, released on October 27. A very small number of patches went in since 2.6.14-rc5. Major changes in 2.6.14 include a new version of the wireless extensions, the HostAP system (which allows a Linux system to function as a wireless access point), relayfs, the DCCP network protocol, the filesystems in user space patch, v9fs, securityfs, and more.

The first 2.6.15 prepatch has not yet been released, and may not be until the window for new features closes. A major pile of patches has been merged into the mainline git repository; see the separate article, below, for a list of some of the more interesting ones.

There have been no -mm releases in the last week.

The current 2.4 prepatch is 2.4.32-rc2, released by Marcelo on Halloween. It contains a small set of fixes, mostly in the networking subsystem.

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