Kernel release status

The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.27-rc2, released on August 5. There's a lot of changes here, many of which are fixes or include file reorganizations (architecture-specific include files are moving from include/asm-xxx to arch/xxx/include), but there's also a driver for the SGI "GRU" system management device, support for the MIPS architecture in the common kgdb debugger, a new subsystem for the management of voltage and current regulators, some core memory management and VFS locking changes, a driver for the SPI master controller on Orion chips, and the removal of the long-deprecated cli() and sti() functions. See the short-form changelog for details, or the full changelog for lots of details.

As of this writing, no changesets have been merged into the mainline repository since the 2.6.27-rc2 release.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.27-rc1-mm1. Recent changes to -mm consist mainly of a large reduction in size as hundreds of patches flow into the mainline.

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.26.2, released on August 6. It contains a large set of fixes for a wide variety of problems. Previously, 2.6.26.1 (also a large set of fixes) was released on August 1.

For 2.6.25 users: 2.6.25.14 (August 1) and 2.6.25.15 (August 6) continue the series of fixes for that kernel release.

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