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Kernel release status
The current development kernel is 2.6.36-rc2, released by Linus on
August 22. It contains mostly fixes, but Linus did also pull some
small parts of the VFS scalability patch set. "The other big merge
in -rc2 is the intel graphics update. I'm not hugely happy about the timing
of it, but I think I needed to pull it. Apart from that, there's a number
of random fixes all over, the appended shortlog gives you a taste of
it." See said shortlog for details, or the
full changelog for all the details.
About 200 changes have been merged (as of this writing) since the 2.6.36-rc2 release. They are dominated by fixes, but there's also a new driver for Marvell pxa168 Ethernet controllers and a core mutex change (see below). Stable updates: the 2.6.27.52, 2.6.32.20, 2.6.34.5, and 2.6.35.3 stable kernel updates were released on August 20. These are relatively small updates containing fixes for the new "stack guard page" feature which was added to close the recently-disclosed X.org local root vulnerability. There is a rather larger set of updates in the review process currently; they can be expected on or after August 26. (Log in to post comments)
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