Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch remains 2.6.23-rc3; the 2.6.23-rc4 release is somewhat overdue as of this writing. There has been a steady flow of fixes into the mainline git repository over the last week.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.23-rc3-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include the long-awaited ath5k wireless driver (mac80211-based support for Atheros 5xxx wireless cards), a long list of x86_64 patches, a new PID namespaces patch, and the PIE executable randomization patch from ExecShield.

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.22.4, released on August 20. This one contains a single patch - a security fix for the signal vulnerability which allows, under some circumstances, an arbitrary signal to be sent to a setuid process. (Note that the 2.6.22.5 process has already begun with that update being due on or after the 23rd).

For older kernels: 2.6.20.16 was released on August 16 with a couple dozen fixes. The next 2.6.20 stable update is currently in review; it is a large patch set with quite a few fixes.

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