Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 2.5.59, which was released by Linus on January 16. It includes a number of architecture-specific updates, an XFS update, support for the SHA-386 and SHA-512 algorithms in the crypto API, a new NUMA scheduler (see below), and some sysfs work. The long-format changelog has the details.

This will be the last release from Linus for a bit, since he will be traveling through the end of the month. There are currently no additional patches merged into his BitKeeper tree.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.20; Marcelo has not released any 2.4.21 prepatches since January 6.

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