Kernel release status

The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.30-rc1, released by Linus on April 8. "So the two week merge window has closed, and just as well - because we had a lot of changes. As usual. Certainly I had no urges to keep the window open to get those last remaining few megabytes of patches." Significant changes in 2.6.30 will include the integrity management architecture, the TOMOYO Linux security module, the preadv() and pwritev() system calls, object storage device support, the FS-Cache local filesystem caching layer, several new tracing features, the Nilfs filesystem, a number of other filesystem changes, and a huge number of new drivers. See the long-format changelog for all the details.

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.29.1, released on April 2. "There's many bugfixes all over the tree, but this should specifically fix the networking issues people had w/ 2.6.29. As usual, you're encouraged to upgrade."

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