Kernel release status

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.16.18, released on May 22 with a single fix for a remote denial of service problem in the netfilter SNMP NAT code. 2.6.16.17 was released on May 20 with a rather larger set of fixes.

The current 2.6 prepatch remains 2.6.17-rc4. Fixes continue to accumulate in the mainline git repository, however, and it looks like the -rc5 release could happen sometime soon.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.17-rc4-mm3. Recent changes to -mm include the big serial ATA patch set, an S/390 hypervisor filesystem, the Secmark packet filtering code, a new set of page migration patches, a new framework for hardware random number generator support, the file_operations read/write consolidation patch (since dropped until some problems are fixed), and the UTS namespace patches (see below). The next -mm release will also include the genirq patch set (see below).

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