Kernel release status

The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.25-rc2, released by Linus on February 15. We are in the stabilization period now, so, as one would expect, most of the changes are fixes. This prepatch also contains some tweaks to the realtime group scheduling interface and the addition of a multiple-probes capability to kernel markers. Says Linus: "I'm optimistic that this release cycle won't be anywhere near the pain of what 24 was, which is why I'm just going to go off for the long weekend and stay at the beach." See the long-format changelog for the details.

As of this writing, just over 300 patches have gone into the mainline repository since 2.6.25-rc2. They are mostly fixes, but there's also some new watchdog drivers, a SMACK security module enhancement, and some fairly large Video4Linux driver updates.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.25-rc2-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include ext4 online defragmentation support and read-only bind mount support.

For older kernels: 2.4.36.1 was released on February 16; it contains a number of low-priority security fixes.

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