Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 2.5.73, which was released by Linus on June 22. Changes this time around include some big ext3 and journaling changes (see last week's LWN Kernel Page), an ACPI update, a big ia64 merge, some networking fixes, a new PCI device locking scheme, the new request_firmware() interface (see the May 21 LWN Kernel Page), an NFS server update, more driver model work, an ARM update, and various other fixes and tweaks. The long-format changelog has all the details.

Linus's BitKeeper tree, as of this writing, contains an MTD driver cleanup, the beginning of work on the loop driver (see below), and some patches to make the network block device driver work again.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.21. Marcelo has started the 2.4.22 process (supposed to only last a couple months) with the release of 2.4.22-pre1; it is a large patch with a lot of USB work, the long-awaited ACPI update, some network fixes, and quite a few other repairs and updates.

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