Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.30-rc3, released on April 21. "The diffstat really shows lots of small one-liners and two-liners, although there are areas that are getting bigger patches (ignoring the bulky but uninteresting arm defconfig updates): some x86 updates, some block IO scheduling fixes, splice cleanups and fixes, and a number of driver changes (sound, networking, staging, usb)." The short-form changelog is in the announcement, or see the full changelog for all the details.

The current stable 2.6 release remains 2.6.29.1; there have been no stable 2.6 updates since April 2.

For the fans of extreme stability, though, 2.4.37.1 was released on April 19. "Most of these fixes concern minor security issues which have been backported from 2.6 (mostly local DoSes). In my opinion, only people with local users might consider upgrading, if those people still exist!"

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Kernel release status

Posted Apr 23, 2009 14:57 UTC (Thu) by christian75 (guest, #56731) [Link]

Look at the release note for kernel 2.6.30-rc3 and see the subject!

http://lwn.net/Articles/329525/

Kernel release status

Posted Apr 30, 2009 9:16 UTC (Thu) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

=:^)

You know, even after you posted such a huge hint to look for a typo or
something, it still took me several tries and about half a minute or so to
see it.

Thanks for the hint, tho. If the man himself can't keep it straight, what
hope do us mere mortals have? I won't feel so bad screwing it up myself
now.

Duncan