Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current development kernel is 2.6.34-rc7, released on May 9. Linus says: "I think this is the last -rc - things have been pretty quiet on the patch front, although there's been some rather spirited discussions." The full changelog contains all the details.

According to the latest regression posting, there are 24 unresolved regressions in 2.6.34.

Stable updates: the 2.6.32.13 and 2.6.33.4 stable kernel updates were released on May 12. Both are large - on the order of 100 patches each - and fix a number of important problems.

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Kernel release status

Posted May 13, 2010 15:54 UTC (Thu) by cry_regarder (subscriber, #50545) [Link]

It would make an interesting article to analize how long unresolved regressions survive after release. For example lets say 2.6.34 still has 24 unresolved regressions at release and 2.6.33 also had 24.

Then we would have data like:

Unresolved regressions
2.6.33 2.6.34

2.6.33.0 24 NA
2.6.33.1 18 NA
2.6.33.2 16 NA
2.6.34.0 13 24
2.6.34.1 10 19
2.6.34.2 7 12

and so on. There seems to be a belief that regressions get fixed in the point releases. How long does it really take for a regression that is released to get fixed? How many known regressions are over a year old? How long does a regression have to live for before it is not a regression and is just the-way-the-world-is?

Cry