Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.19.1, released on December 11. It contains quite a few fixes, including two for security-related problems.

There have been no 2.6 prepatches over the last week as the 2.6.20 merge window is still open. Quite a few patches have found their way into the mainline git repository; see below for a summary.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.19-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include new debugging features for kmap_atomic(), the user-space driver framework, and a public-key transport mechanism for eCryptfs. Mostly, however, -mm has shrunk considerably as patches have moved into the mainline.

For older 2.6 kernels: Adrian Bunk has released 2.6.16.35 with a few dozen fixes (one security-related). He has also released 2.6.16.36-rc1 with a handful of patches.

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Kernel release status

Posted Dec 14, 2006 3:29 UTC (Thu) by NCunningham (guest, #6457) [Link]

Don't you hate it when your news is out of date as soon as you release it? 2.6.20-rc1 has just been rolled.

Regards,

Nigel

Kernel release status

Posted Dec 14, 2006 6:30 UTC (Thu) by JoeF (subscriber, #4486) [Link]

2.6.19-mm1 should not be used, since it apparently corrupts filesystems with certain properties.
See the README