Kernel release status

There is no mainline 2.6 prepatch as of this writing; the 2.6.24 merge window remains open. Patches are flowing into the mainline repository at a high rate; see the article below for the highlights.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.23-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include a new power management "quality of service" infrastructure, a number of ext4 updates, and the kernel markers patch.

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.23.1, released on October 12. This update contains a single fix for a corruption problem in the sata_mv driver.

For older kernels: 2.6.16.55 was released on October 14 with several security fixes.

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