Kernel release status

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.16.1, released on March 27. 2.6.15.7 was released at the same time. Both patches contain a fair number of important fixes, some of which are security-related.

There has been no 2.6 development prepatch released over the last week. Patches are flowing into the mainline git repository at a high rate, however; see below for a list.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.16-mm2. Recent changes to -mm include the ability to call poll() on sysfs files (LWN coverage), support for 64-bit I/O and memory resources, priority-inheriting futex support, and a new set of central time management patches.

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