Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 prepatch remains 2.6.21-rc3. About 250 patches have found their way into the mainline repository since -rc3 was released; -rc4 will likely come out shortly after LWN is published this week.

There are two current -mm trees, differing only in their inclusion of one patch set: 2.6.21-rc3-mm1 (which includes the RSDL scheduler) and 2.6.21-rc3-mm2 (which does not).

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.20.3, released on March 13 with a couple dozen fixes. 2.6.20.2 was released on March 9 with a full 100 patches.

For older kernels: 2.6.16.43 was released on March 8. 2.6.16.44-rc1 is out with a number of fixes, including a couple of security patches.

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Kernel release status

Posted Mar 15, 2007 4:17 UTC (Thu) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]

Hmmmm .....

-rc4 will likely come out shortly after LWN is published this week.

You think Linus is on to you?

Kernel release status

Posted Mar 16, 2007 16:43 UTC (Fri) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

Looks like he tricked everybody. He planned to release it right after LWN came out but got distracted and didn't release it for another day.