Kernel release status

The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.28-rc7, released on December 1. Linus says: "I was gone for a week, and it wasn't quite as quiet as I was hoping for, but there's a new -rc out there now with the merges of the fallout." Along with the usual fixes, 2.6.28-rc7 includes a new set of resource limits intended to prevent excessive kernel memory usage via the epoll_wait() system call.

Details, as usual, can be found in the long-format changelog.

There have been no stable kernel updates over the last week. The 2.6.27.8 update is in the review process as of this writing; this 104-patch monster can be expected sometime on or after December 5.

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