Kernel release status

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.16.15, released on May 9. It adds four security patches, all of which apply to the SCTP code. Previously, 2.6.16.14 was released on May 5 with a patch for an smbfs problem which could enable a process to escape a chroot environment.

The current 2.6 prepatch remains 2.6.17-rc3. A few hundred patches have been merged into the mainline git repository since -rc3 was released; they are mostly fixes, but there is also a set of splice() improvements and the ability add attribute groups to class_device entries at registration time.

There have been no -mm releases over the last week.

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