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Kernel release status
The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.23-rc3, released by Linus on
August 12. "Either people really are calming down, and figuring
out that we're in the stabilization phase, or it's just that it's the
middle of August, and most everybody at least in Europe are off on
vacation." The changes are mostly limited to fixes; see the
long-format changelog for the details.
As of this writing, a few dozen post-rc3 fixes have been merged into the mainline repository. The current -mm tree is 2.6.23-rc2-mm2. Recent changes to -mm include a new e1000 network driver, a bunch of IDE updates, and support for NUMA nodes with no memory. The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.22.3, released on August 15. It contains several fixes, one of which is security-related. 2.6.22.2, containing a rather larger set of fixes, was released on August 9. For older kernels: Willy Tarreau has announced his intention to put together "a few more" 2.6.20 stable updates. The first of those is due almost any time. 2.4.35.1 was released on August 15. It contains some build fixes and one security patch. (Log in to post comments)
ACPI EC support broken in 2.6.23-rc3 Posted Aug 16, 2007 15:36 UTC (Thu) by hmh (subscriber, #3838) [Link] Just a small warning...
2.6.23-rc3 is quite broken for ACPI systems that have an EC (like say, just about every laptop) and can cause all sort of weird behaviour. Get 2.6.23-rc3-git1 at the very least before reporting bugs...
Kernel release status Posted Aug 19, 2007 9:50 UTC (Sun) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link] No quote of the week?
Quote of the week Posted Aug 20, 2007 12:56 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] If I can't find something good enough, there's no quote of the week. I'd rather leave it out entirely than put some sort of filler there. Lots of good conversation happens every week, but it is not always the case that I'm able to find something which extracts nicely into the QOTW form.
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