Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 2.6.31-rc6, released on August 14. "There's nothing hugely interesting there, although I'm personally gratified by the fact that I have a few more commits than usual. Even if they are all really small, it makes me feel useful." See the announcement for the short-form changelog and some comments on the latest NULL pointer vulnerability fix.

The current stable kernel is 2.6.30.5, released (along with 2.6.27.30) on August 16. Both contain a long list of fixes for a number of significant problems. Note that 2.6.27.30 had a compilation problem; 2.6.27.31 was released shortly thereafter with a fix for that one issue.

The current ancient kernel is 2.4.37.5, released on August 13 with a fix for the latest null pointer vulnerability (which affects 2.4 kernels as well as 2.6).

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