Kernel release status

The 2.6.29 merge window is open, so there is no development kernel release as of this writing. Quite a bit of work has been merged for 2.6.29; see the separate article below for details.

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.28, released by Linus on December 24. Some of the highlights of this kernel are the addition of the GEM GPU memory manager, the ext4 filesystem is no longer "experimental", scalability improvements in memory management via the reworked vmap() and pageout scalability patches, moving the -staging drivers into the mainline, and much more. See the excellent KernelNewbies summary for lots more details about 2.6.28. Says Linus: "In fact, even _if_ you have friends or family, leave them to their endless toil over that christmas ham or turkey, and during the night, when they're asleep, you can give them that magical present of a newly updated computer. When they wake up tomorrow morning, tell them how you saw Santa crawl down the chimney with his USB stick in hand, updating the OS of all good boys and girls."

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