Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 2.6.33-rc6, released on January 29. "Give it a go. Hopefully we've fixed a number of regressions, we're getting to that stage of the release cycle where things mostly should 'just work' and people who still see regressions should start making loud noises." Full details can be found in the full changelog.

Stable updates: 2.6.32.7 and 2.6.27.45 were released on January 28. The 2.6.32.7 update is rather large, consisting of 98 patches, which Greg Kroah-Hartman explains as follows: "This release is brought to you by the very appreciated efforts of the Debian, Gentoo, and Novell kernel teams, who spent a lot of time to flush out patches that were in their trees to me for inclusion. Special thanks goes to Ben Hutchings for doing a lot of this work." A footnote in the 2.6.32.7 review announcement makes it clear that Kroah-Hartman was the Gentoo and Novell kernel team member responsible.

Ancient kernels: 2.4.37.8 was released on January 31; it contains an e1000 security fix and a few other updates. 2.4.37.9 followed the next day with a fix for the e1000 fix.

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