Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.24-rc2, released, somewhat belatedly, on November 6. "There was nothing in particular holding this thing up, I just basically just forgot to cut a -rc2 release last week." Patches merged since -rc1 are mostly fixes, but there's also some DCCP improvements, a flag to silence warnings about use of deprecated interfaces, an asynchronous event notification API for SCSI/SATA (it tells the system when a removable disk has been inserted), a Japanese translation of the SubmittingPatches document, an ATA link power management API, and a bit more x86 unification work. See the short-form changelog for a list of patches, or the long-form changelog for the details.

As of this writing, no patches have found their way into the mainline git repository since the -rc2 release.

For older kernels: 2.6.22.11 and 2.6.22.12 came out on November 2 and 5, respectively. These releases contain a number of patches, including one which is security-related for both people running Minix filesystems. Greg Kroah-Hartman has recently said that, contrary to previous indications, the 2.6.22.x series will continue for a while yet.

2.6.16.56 and 2.6.16.57 were released on November 1 and 5, respectively. They contain quite a few fixes, several of which have vulnerability numbers associated with them.

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