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Kernel release status
The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.27-rc9, released on October 6.
Says Linus: "I know, I know, I said that -rc8 was supposed to be the
last -rc, and that I'd release 2.6.27 this weekend. I lied. Sue me. I
merged two subtle regression fixes today, and while both looked perfectly
fine and had been tested by the people involved in the regressions, I just
couldn't bring myself to then just slap a 'v2.6.27' on it without some more
testing." Expect the final 2.6.27 release in the near future.
It is worth noting that, as of this writing, 2.6.27 does not contain a fix for the e1000e hardware corruption bug. What it does contain, though, is a series of patches which will prevent that bug from actually damaging the hardware. That makes the kernel safer to run, which is an important step in the right direction. No stable kernel releases have been made over the last week. As of this writing, though, there were large updates for the 2.6.25 and 2.6.26 kernels in the review process. (Log in to post comments)
Kernel release status Posted Oct 10, 2008 13:39 UTC (Fri) by alex (subscriber, #1355) [Link]
Waiting or LWN to come out obviously:
commit 3fa8749e584b55f1180411ab1b51117190bac1e5
Linux 2.6.27
Kernel release status Posted Oct 11, 2008 3:00 UTC (Sat) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Linus doesn't do things like that.
Except he does.
(Lots of stable kernels released at almost the same time...)
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