Kernel release status

The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.25-rc5, released on March 9. Linus says: "So the size of the -rc patches is finally starting to shrink, but we still have way too many outstanding regression reports." See the announcement for the short-form changelog, or the long-form changelog for all the details.

The flow of patches into the mainline git repository continues; they are mostly fixes, but, since the 2.6.25-rc5 release, Linus has also merged drivers for JMicron jmb38x MemoryStick host controllers, Varitronix VL-PS-COG-T350MCQB-01 displays, and RouterBoard 500 PATA Compact Flash controllers and removed the x86 quicklist feature.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.25-rc5-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include a number of memory policy changes, a rework of the signal delivery code, the simple tracing infrastructure, and a lot of cleanup patches.

There have been no stable kernel releases over the last week.

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