Kernel release status

The 2.6.38 kernel is out, released by Linus on March 14. "As to the "big picture", ie all the changes since 2.6.37, my personal favorite remains the VFS name lookup changes. They did end up causing some breakage, and Al has made it clear that he wants more cleanups, but on the whole I think it was surprisingly smooth." Other significant changes in 2.6.38 include transparent hugepage support, per-session group scheduling, a number of Btrfs improvements, and more. The always excellent KernelNewbies.org page has all the details.

Stable updates: the 2.6.37.4 and 2.6.32.33 updates were released on March 14. Both contain several important fixes.

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