Kernel release status

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.24, released by Linus on January 24. Highlights of this release include control groups (formerly process containers), the i386/x86_64 architecture merger, group scheduling in the CFS scheduler, network and PID namespaces, kernel markers, the removal of the modular security interface, and much more. See LWN's list of merged patches for more detail, or the always-amazing KernelNewbies Linux Changes page for much more detail.

The 2.6.25 merge window is open, but the process of picking up patches is going relatively slowly due to the distractions of linux.conf.au. See the article below for a summary of what has been merged to date.

For older kernels: 2.6.16.60 was released on January 27 with about a dozen fixes.

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