Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.25-rc1, released by Linus on February 10. It is a huge patch. Among many other things, 2.6.25 will have realtime group scheduling, preemptible RCU, LatencyTop support, a bunch of ext4 filesystem enhancements, the controller area network protocol, Atheros wireless support, the reworked timerfd() system call, the page map patches, the SMACK security module, the container memory use controller, the ACPI thermal regulation API, and support for the MN10300/AM33 architecture. See the short-form changelog for lots of details, or the long changelog for more detail than anybody can cope with.

As of this writing, a few dozen small fixes have gone into the mainline git repository since the -rc1 release.

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.24.2, released on February 10. This update contains a single patch fixing the vmsplice() vulnerability. 2.6.24.1 was released - with a rather longer list of fixes - on February 8.

For older kernels: 2.6.23.16 and 2.6.22.18 both come out on February 10; they, too, contain the vmsplice() fix. 2.6.23.15 was released on February 8 with a few dozen fixes. And 2.6.22.17, also with quite a few fixes, came out on February 6.

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Do you have a link for the realtime group scheduling ?

Alex