Kernel release status

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.17.4, released on July 6. It contains a single fix for a locally-exploitable vulnerability in the prctl() system call. 2.6.16.24 was also released with the same fix.

The current 2.6 prepatch remains 2.6.18-rc1. Almost 200 patches have gone into the mainline since -rc1 was released; they are almost all fixes, but the "TCP Compound" congestion control algorithm was also removed due to doubts about the code's origin.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.18-rc1-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include a vast number of new warnings for unchecked return values, a set of software suspend updates, and a new version of the vectored I/O operation patch set.

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