Kernel release status

The 2.6.14.3 stable kernel release is in review as of this writing; it should be released sometime around November 25. It contains 23 patches with important fixes, most of which are in the networking subsystem.

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.15-rc2, released by Linus on November 19. It is mostly made up of a large pile of fixes, but there is also a big x86-64 update (including the DMA32 memory zone) which got missed for -rc1. The long-format changelog has the details.

Linus's git repository contains 100 or so fixes merged since -rc2. Among them is the new VM_UNPAGED VMA feature, described below.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.15-rc1-mm2. Recent changes to -mm include various memory management and memory hotplug patches, a relayfs update, a number of kernel shrinking patches from the -tiny tree, a reiser4 update, some software suspend improvements, a kdump update, and lots of fixes.

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