Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.20-rc3, released by Linus just before he went out to celebrate the new year. It contains the fix for the file corruption bug (see below) and a few hundred other fixes.

Previously, 2.6.20-rc2 was released on December 23 with another big set of fixes.

Just a few patches have been added to the mainline git repository since -rc3 came out. There are currently six entries in the known unfixed regressions list maintained by Adrian Bunk.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.20-rc2-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include a new version of the user-space drivers patch, more paravirtualization hooks, a generic time implementation for x86_64, and a generic GPIO driver core.

For older kernels: 2.6.16.37 was released on December 28 with a long list of fixes.

2.4.34 came out on December 28. It has a number of security fixes and support for the gcc 4.x compilers.

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Kernel release status

Posted Jan 4, 2007 22:49 UTC (Thu) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link]

So is 2.6.19.1 still the stable kernel level, or what? (I'm not running
the "older" 2.6.16, and I want to see if the file corruption bug was
fixed yet.)

Time to go check kernel.org...

Kernel release status

Posted Jan 5, 2007 17:20 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

12.6.19.1 is still -stable (as of a few minutes ago, anyway).

(You could cherry-pick the fix from the trunk fairly easily: it should apply to 2.6.19 without much trouble.)

Kernel release status

Posted Jan 5, 2007 17:21 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Um, 2.6.19.1, that is. There hasn't been a sudden flood of new major kernel releases in the last few days ;)