Kernel release status

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.16.19, released on May 30. It contains a single fix for an information leak in the netfilter code.

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.17-rc5, released by Linus on May 24. With luck, this will be the final prepatch before the final 2.6.17 release. It consists of a fair number of fixes; see the long-format changelog for the details.

Several dozen patches (all fixes) have found their way into the mainline after the -rc5 release.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.17-rc5-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include the generic IRQ layer, an updated version of reiser4, the lock validator (see below), the adaptive readahead patch set, a new infrastructure for maintaining kernel statistics, and a new kernel API for inotify.

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