Kernel release status

The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.28-rc4, released on November 9. "Nothing hugely exciting here. Various small fixes all over. There's a delayed FAT update which includes some movement of files around, and there's two fixes for some really long-standing problems (not really regressions, but nasty bugs) in Unix domain file descriptor passing." This release also contains a new Fujitsu MB862xx framebuffer driver and the introduction of a new internal API for dealing with CPU masks. See the long-format changelog for all the details.

As of this writing, just over 200 fixes have been merged into the mainline git repository since the 2.6.28-rc4 release.

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.27.5, released on November 7. It contains a long list of fixes accompanied by a stronger-than-usual encouragement to upgrade. The 2.6.27.6 update is in the review process as of this writing; it will likely be released on November 14.

The 2.6.25.20 and 2.6.26.8 stable kernel updates came out on November 10. They both contain a long list of fixes, and both are intended to be the last in the series. Users who are dependent on these updates will want to consider moving to 2.6.27 in the near future.

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