Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch remains 2.6.23-rc1, no prepatches have been released over the last week. Well over 500 changesets have been merged into the mainline git repository since -rc1, though, and the -rc2 release is overdue. The changes are mostly fixes, but there is also the addition of the "literate" Lguest documentation, a mechanism where kernel-space code can request notification when it is about to be preempted from the CPU, new configuration options for software suspend and hibernation, the removal of support for SuperH sh73180 and 7300 CPUs, AMD Geode LX framebuffer support, the removal of the arm26 port, and a TCP congestion control API change (pkts_ackt() gets the round-trip time in microseconds now).

The current -mm tree is 2.6.23-rc1-mm2. Recent changes to -mm include support for multiple netconsole targets, a Sonics Silicon backplane subsystem, and a bunch of reiser4 fixes.

For older kernels: 2.6.16.53 was released on July 25 with about a dozen fixes. 2.4.35 was released on July 26 with a number of backported drivers and fixes.

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