Kernel release status

The current 2.6 kernel is 2.6.22.1. Linus announced the release of the 2.6.22 kernel on July 8. For those just tuning in: much has happened in this development cycle, including the addition of the mac80211 (formerly "Devicescape") wireless networking stack, the eventfd system calls, some new TCP congestion control algorithms, a rewritten CFQ I/O scheduler, a new IEEE1394 ("Firewire") stack, support for the Blackfin architecture, the long-awaited IVTV TV tuner driver, and much more. See the KernelNewbies 2.6.22 page for vast amounts of detail, the long-format changelog for even more detail, or the short-form changelog for a (relatively) concise listing of patches in this release.

The 2.6.22.1 update, released on July 10, adds an SCTP security fix which had somehow managed not to get into 2.6.22.

The 2.6.23 merge window has opened, and some 500 patches have found their way into the mainline git repository (as of this writing).

For older kernels: the 2.6.20.15 and 2.6.21.6 stable updates were released on July 6; each contains a single fix for a security problem in the netfilter H323 connection tracking code.

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