Kernel release status

The current development kernel remains 2.6.31-rc3; no kernel prepatches have been released in the last week. Patches continue to flow into the mainline repository, though, and the -rc4 release may be out by the time you read this.

The current stable kernel is 2.6.30.2, released (along with 2.6.27.27) on July 19. Both updates contain a number of security-relevant fixes, including some inspired by the recent NULL-pointer exploit. Note that users have reported boot-time problems with 2.6.27.27; it seems that this kernel ran afoul of a GCC 4.2 bug which causes it to be miscompiled.

2.4.37.3, the first 2.4 update in some time, was released on July 19. This release, too, was motivated by the NULL pointer exploit; it also fixes some serious problems with the r8169 network driver.

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