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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.
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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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Kernel release status
Posted Jul 14, 2006 11:23 UTC (Fri) by superstoned (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
But swap prefetch didn't enter. Despite being ready, and giving manytesters a clear benefit. Rather weird, imho.