Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.16-rc4, announced by Linus on February 17. Things are settling down, and this prepatch contains "only" 100 fixes or so, many concentrated in the SCSI subsystem. Details can be found in the long-format changelog.

As of this writing, the mainline git repository contains about 75 post-rc4 patches, including one reverting a change which broke systems running non-current versions of HAL (see below).

The current -mm tree is 2.6.16-rc4-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include the addition of Al Viro's "bird" tree, a big x86-64 update, some memory management tweaks, some software suspend patches, a big "generic bit operations" patch set, and the lightweight robust futex patch.

For 2.4 users, Marcelo has released the second 2.4.33 prepatch with several fixes, some of which are security-related.

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