Kernel release status

The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.31-rc1, released by Linus on June 24. "There's a lot in there, but let me say that as far as the whole merge window has gone, I've seldom felt happier merging stuff from people. I'm really hoping it isn't just a fluke, but people kept their git trees clean, and while there were a couple of times that I said "no, I'm not going to merge that", on the whole this was a really painless merge window for me." Linus did say that he is likely to still merge the S+Core architecture (score) as it only touches the MAINTAINERS file outside of its tree. The significant changes for 2.6.31 include performance counters, character devices in user space (CUSE), kernel modesetting for Radeon hardware, kmemleak and kmemcheck, fsnotify (which provides a common implementation for dnotify and inotify), along with a vast quantity of drivers of various sorts. See the long-format changelog for all the details.

There have been no stable updates in the last week, nor are there any stable patches out for review.