Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch remains 2.6.16-rc5; no new -rc releases have been made over the last week. A slow trickle of patches continues to find its way into the mainline git repository as bugs are tracked down and fixed.

The current -mm release is 2.6.16-rc5-mm3. Recent changes to -mm include a patch to allow NFS mounts from a common server to share superblocks, CPU hotplug support for the x86-64 architecture, a continuation of the /proc rework, and some device mapper work.

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.15.6, released on March 5, following shortly after 2.6.15.5. The two updates carry a few dozen patches, a number of which address security-related issues.

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