Kernel release status

The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.26-rc9, released on July 5. "Enough changes that we needed another -rc, and the regression list isn't emptying fast enough either (probably because a number of people, including reporters, are vacationing)." Along with the fixes there's a new driver for cameras which implement the standard USB video class spec. The long-format changelog has the details.

A few dozen changesets have been merged since 2.6.26-rc9, as of this writing. They are mostly fixes, but there is also a printk() extension which allows for higher-level format string specifiers; see below for details.

The current -mm kernel is 2.6.26-rc8-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include the MMU notifiers patch, a new alloc_pages_exact() function for more efficient large allocations, a lot of checkpatch.pl tweaks, and a patch series ending with "revert-revert-revert-revert-linux-next-revert-bootmem-add-return-value-to-reserve_bootmem_node.patch" that one probably doesn't want to know about.

The current stable 2.6 release is 2.6.25.10, released on July 2. "It contains a number of assorted bugfixes all over the tree. And once again, any users of the 2.6.25 kernel series are STRONGLY encouraged to upgrade to this release."

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