Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch remains 2.6.22-rc4. Patches continue to flow into the mainline repository; they are mostly fixes, but the ZERO_SIZE_PTR patch for the SLUB allocator has also gone in.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.22-rc4-mm2. Recent changes to -mm are almost all fixes aimed at stabilizing this tree somewhat.

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.21.5, released on June 11 with a rather long list of fixes. 2.6.21.4 was released on June 8 with a set of security fixes: "The /dev/[u]random fix is especially important for machines with no entropy source (e.g. keyboard, mice, or disk drives) and no realtime clock since successive boots could generate same output from RNG. The cpuset bug is a possible information leak when reading from /dev/cpuset/tasks (assuming cpusets support is compiled in and the cpuset fs mounted on /dev/cpuset). The SCTP bug is remotely triggerable when using SCTP conntrack."

For older kernels: 2.6.20.13 was released on June 8 with the same security fixes; it was followed by 2.6.20.14 (June 11), which contained a large assortment of patches.

2.4.34.5 was released on June 6 with a small set of fixes. The 2.4.35 process continues with 2.4.35-pre5, also released on the 6th.

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