Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.23-rc1, released by Linus on July 22. The 2.6.23 merge window is now closed. See the article below for features merged since last week; for a complete view of what's in 2.6.23-rc1 see the short-form changelog or the full changelog if you have a lot of time.

Something over 100 patches have gone into the mainline repository since -rc1 as of this writing. They are mostly fixes, but there was also a patch removing the request_queue_t typedef - though it was later restored with a "deprecated" tag.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.23-rc1-mm1. This tree has slimmed considerably as patches flowed into the mainline; other changes include a set of IDE updates, the USB device authorization patches, the Linux security non-modules patch, a new file capabilities patch, some new ext4 features, and process-ID namespaces.

For older kernels: 2.6.16.53-rc1 was released on July 23 - the first 2.6.16 update in a while.

2.4.34.6 was released on July 22 with a couple of fixes. 2.4.35-rc1 is also out with a larger set of fixes; the final 2.4.35 release should happen shortly.

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