Kernel release status

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.17.3, released on June 30. It was a single-fix release for a denial of service vulnerability in the netfilter SCTP connection tracking code. One day earlier, 2.6.17.2 had been released with a relatively large set of important fixes. The SCTP fix can also be found in 2.6.16.23.

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.18-rc1, released by Linus on July 5. A summary of changes can be found in a separate article below. Also available are the short-form changelog (too bulky to be included with Linus's announcement) and the long-form changelog.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.17-mm6. Recent changes to -mm include some extensions to the read-copy-update API, some "massive" CPU scheduler cleanup work, the removal of a number of old (OSS) sound drivers, and a set of patches shrinking the inode structure. A great many patches have been removed from -mm as they have found their way into 2.6.18-rc1.

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