Kernel release status

The current 2.6 kernel is 2.6.16, released on March 19. A fair number of fixes have been merged since 2.6.16-rc6, but nothing too major. For those just tuning in, some of the big, user-visible changes in this kernel include the OCFS2 cluster filesystem, a number of networking changes including CUBIC congestion control, TIPC support, and an IPv6 version of DCCP, the swap migration and direct migration patches, a new SCHED_BATCH scheduler class, a number of new filesystem-oriented system calls, and the error detection and correction code. Big internal changes include the mutex changeover and the high-resolution timer code. The long-format changelog has lots of details.

The mainline git repository contains a big pile of patches merged for 2.6.17-rc1; see below for a summary.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.16-rc6-mm2. Recent changes to -mm include a reorganization of the page migration code (since merged), some high-resolution timers changes, some scheduler tweaks, and the MD RAID reshaping patches.

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