Kernel release status

The current development kernel remains 2.6.37-rc5; there have been no 2.6.37 prepatches in the last week. Linus has returned from his travels and has resumed pulling patches, so a new release can be expected in the near future.

Stable updates: the 2.6.27.57, 2.6.32.27, and 2.6.36.2 updates were released on December 9. Greg Kroah-Hartman notes that this is the last 2.6.27 kernel he will be releasing as he is turning that kernel over to Willy Tarreau for maintenance as a long-term kernel (in keeping with the stable tree changes he announced on December 3). "It was a good run, [encompassing] 57 releases, over 791 days, and included 1596 patches (not the largest of any stable release series, .32 has that beat already). [...] Speaking of .32, I'd _strongly_ encourage all existing .27 users to seriously look into migrating to the .32 kernel tree at this point in time as well."

The 2.6.35.10 update was released - with over 200 patches - on December 15 by new maintainer Andi Kleen. Says Andi: "This release contains security fixes and all 2.6.35 users are encouraged to update."

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