Kernel release status

The current development kernel remains 2.5.69; there have been no development kernel releases since May 4.

Patches continue to accumulate in Linus's BitKeeper repository, however; it now contains some NFS fixes, sysfs support for network devices, an XFS update, some scheduler fixes, a change to the request_module() prototype, some framebuffer fixes, more annotations of user-space pointers and makefile support for Linus's (still unreleased) kernel source analyzer, 48-bit IDE addressing support, a (hopefully) working IDE tagged command queueing implementation, the BIO "walking" API, more devfs cleanups (devfs_register() is gone), the USB "gadget" subsystem, a wireless networking update (and quite a bit of networking work in general), dynamic block I/O request allocation, a fair amount of SCSI cleanup work, a generic x86 subarchitecture, a number of TTY layer cleanups, a USB update, an IA-64 update, and a vast number of other fixes -- some 700 changesets in all.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.20; no 2.4.21 prepatches have been released since 2.4.21-rc2 on May 8.

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