Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current development kernel is 2.5.65, which was released by Linus on March 17. It includes a bunch of scheduler work (see last week's LWN kernel page), some IDE work, some devfs trimming, NUMA updates, a PCI update, a number of kbuild updates (including the long-awaited GTK front end for "make xconfig"), various architecture updates, and a long list of other fixes. The long-format changelog has the details.

Linus's BitKeeper tree includes an interesting patch which makes the "magic sysrq" functionality available to remote users (via /proc/sysrq-trigger), a PA-RISC update, and a small number of fixes and performance improvements.

The current prepatch from Alan Cox is 2.5.65-ac1, which adds a small set of new fixes.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.20; Marcelo has released no 2.4.21 prepatches since 2.4.21-pre5, which came out on February 27.

Note that 2.4.20 contains a local root vulnerability; if you are running systems with untrusted users, you should apply an update from your vendor or the patch supplied with the vulnerability announcement.

Alan Cox has released 2.2.25, which contains the ptrace vulnerability fix (and nothing else).

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GTK kernel configurator

Posted Mar 20, 2003 6:11 UTC (Thu) by Strike (guest, #861) [Link]

To anyone who is curious to see what the new GTK config frontend looks like, I've taken a screenshot here showing off as much as I could. I only have a few critiques, but overall it's a pretty good first try. First of all, the N M Y columns should be check boxes and the check boxes for the uncheckable options (like you couldn't choose "Y" for a sound card module if sound itself is a module) should either be greyed out dynamically or removed dynamically. Secondly the text description area should not look like an editable text area. Also the iconless buttons (and even some of the icons that are there) leave a bit to be desired. But, like I said, a good first effort. Unfortunately I haven't played with the QT kconfig so I can't make a comparison. Maybe someone who has would be willing to post a comment about it here.

GTK kernel configurator

Posted Mar 20, 2003 7:38 UTC (Thu) by trossi (subscriber, #3957) [Link]

It seems that there is a typo in the screenshot URL, the correct one is http://57r1k3.pwn3d.us/~ddipaolo/misc/images/screenshots/gconfig.png.

GTK kernel configurator

Posted Mar 20, 2003 7:46 UTC (Thu) by Strike (guest, #861) [Link]

Yes, that is the correct URL, thanks :)

Kernel release status

Posted Mar 20, 2003 13:52 UTC (Thu) by PhracturedBlue (subscriber, #4193) [Link]

Thanks for listening to my nitpicking. I much appreciate the extra info on the 2.4 kernel pre-release status.

Kernel release status

Posted Mar 25, 2003 4:51 UTC (Tue) by JLCdjinn (subscriber, #1905) [Link]

Don't you love how the LWN authors actually pay attention to us?

· John