Kernel release status

The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.26-rc3, released by Linus on May 18. Lots of fixes, of course, and things are stabilizing (though the list of regressions remains long). Linus also notes that the kernel developers have now been using git for as long as they used BitKeeper - but there's a lot more developers now. As always, the long-format changelog has the details.

As of this writing, almost 300 changesets have been merged into the mainline git repository since 2.6.26-rc3. They include a new test driver for MMC memory cards, a new device_create_drvdata() function (intended to fix a race condition caused by the previous separation of device_create() and dev_set_drvdata()), a USB wireless device management driver, and a lot of fixes.

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.25.4, released on May 15. It contains a fairly long list of fixes, a couple of which are security-related.

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