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Kernel release status
The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.30-rc4, released by Linus (who has
reverted to the old "just after LWN goes out" schedule) on April 29.
Changes this time around include Tux's return as the kernel mascot and a
whole bunch of fixes. Plus the code name for this release has been changed
to "Vindictive Armadillo." Full details can be found in the
long-format changelog.
Patches continue to flow into the mainline repository; they are almost all fixes, including one from LWN editor Jake Edge addressing some of the address space randomization problems covered on last week's Security Page. No stable 2.6.29 updates have been made in the last week. We did see the release of the 2.6.27.22 and 2.6.28.10 updates on May 2. They contain fixes all over the tree (58 and 88 patches respectively); several have CVE numbers associated with them, so users are encouraged to upgrade. Also: "NOTE, this is the LAST update of the 2.6.28 kernel series, so all users are very strongly encouraged to upgrade to the 2.6.29 series at this point in time!" 2.6.27 will continue to be maintained by the stable folks for quite some time to come. (Log in to post comments)
Kernel release status Posted May 8, 2009 1:17 UTC (Fri) by Tuxie (guest, #47191) [Link]
2.6.29 seems to be the most unstable kernel series for quite a while, at least for me. First Intel SSD disks weren't detected on Nvidia chipsets. Then the whole kernel freezes (hard reboot needed) during heavy NFS load when used as a NFS server. ALSA sometimes fails to init the HDMI audio output. The forcedeth driver put the NIC in some weird hard offline mode on module unload, which even survives a power cycle. Even BIOS think that no cable is connected... I have to temporarily boot XP and press reset when the nic lights go green again to be able to netboot with gPXE. Right now I'm running 2.6.30-rc4 and it already seems much more stable than 2.6.29.[012] ever were.
Kernel release status Posted May 8, 2009 13:52 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
2.6.29.0 had severe problems with networking on older cards (the whole
network stack would freeze after a few minutes). Fixed in 2.6.29.1.
Kernel release status Posted May 9, 2009 21:38 UTC (Sat) by bfields (subscriber, #19510) [Link] "Then the whole kernel freezes (hard reboot needed) during heavy NFS load when used as a NFS server." Pointer to a bug report?
Kernel release status Posted May 11, 2009 0:45 UTC (Mon) by dougsk (guest, #25954) [Link]
not sure about nfs, but these are the ones that seem to be popping up related to network stack wrt e1000e and forcedeth
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484494
I've personally been tripped on the forcedeth issue.
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