Kernel release status

The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.27-rc1, released by Linus on July 28. Some 8100 changesets were merged during the 2.6.27 merge window; see the article below for a summary. Highlights for 2.6.27 will include lots of new drivers (including the gspca webcam drivers), support for hardware data integrity checking in the block layer, support for checkpointing and restoring of virtual machines in Xen, the ftrace tracing framework, mmiotrace, the tracehook patches, delayed allocation in ext4, the UBIFS filesystem, multiqueue networking, kexec jump, the extension of a number of system calls for safer user-space programming, the lockless page cache (see below), and much more. See the short-form changelog for details, or the long-form changelog for lots of details.

As of this writing, no patches have been merged into the mainline repository since the 2.6.27-rc1 release.

The current stable 2.6 kernel remains 2.6.26; there have not yet been any updates to this kernel, though the word is that the pile of patches for such an update is growing.

2.6.25.13 was released on July 28 with a number of networking-related fixes, some of which appear to address severe problems. 2.6.25.12, with a long list of fixes, was released on July 24.

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