Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.23-rc2, released by Linus on August 3. "So I tried to hold people to the merge window, and said no to a few pull requests, but this whole '-rc2 is the new -rc1' thing is a disease, and not only is -rc2 late, it's bigger than it should be. Oh, well." Along with a whole lot of fixes, -rc2 adds extensive documentation to the Lguest code, 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. See the short-form changelog for details or the full changelog for lots of details.

Roughly 50 changesets have been merged into the mainline repository since -rc2.

The current stable 2.6 kernel remains 2.6.22.1. The 2.6.22.2 update is in review as of this writing, and may be released as soon as August 9. It contains 84 fixes for problems all over the tree.

For older kernels: 2.6.21.7 was released on August 4 with a fair number of important fixes.

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