Kernel release status

The current stable 2.6 release is 2.6.16.5. 2.6.16.2 was released on April 7 with a fair number of fixes; 2.6.16.3 and 2.6.16.4 - each containing a single security fix - both came out on April 11, and 2.6.16.5, with a pair of x86-64 fixes, was released on April 12.

The current 2.6 prepatch remains 2.6.17-rc1; no prepatches have been released over the last week. 2.6.17-rc2 would appear to be imminent, however, and may be out by the time you read this.

The patches merged since 2.6.17-rc1 are mostly fixes, but there are a few more substantive changes, including a simplified form of the scheduler starvation avoidance patch, some tweaks to the memory overcommit algorithm, the removal of the obsolete blkmtd driver, the removal of the unmaintained Sangoma WAN drivers, and a new "kernel internal pipe" object (and other changes) for the splice() system call.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.17-rc1-mm2. Recent changes to -mm include a new set of patches for 64-bit resource tracking and some core dump code tweaks.

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