Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.21-rc2, released by Linus on February 27. This prepatch contains a big Video4Linux update, a big PA-RISC architecture update, the beginning of "SMARTMIPS" support, a driver for Davicom DM9601 USB ethernet adapters, a driver for Code Mercenaries "IO Warrior" devices, and HID support in the Bluetooth subsystem. Several patches were also reverted in -rc2 as a result of regressions. Says Linus: "This is not how an -rc2 should look. Need to really calm things down!" See the changelog for the details.

As of this writing, there have been no commits to the mainline repository since -rc2 was released.

There have been no -mm releases over the last week.

On the stable front: 2.6.19.5 and 2.6.18.8 were both released on February 23. They contain a fair number of fixes. Further updates to 2.6.18 are unlikely; there will probably be one more 2.6.19 release in the near future.

2.6.16.42 was released on February 26 with several fixes, some of which are security-related.

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