Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 2.6.39-rc1, released by Linus on March 29. "So 2.6.39-rc1 is out there, and the merge window is closed. I still have to look over the cleancache pull request (which I got in plenty of time, but decided that I want to review after the merge window craziness is over), but other than that, we're done." Significant changes in 2.6.39 will include the open by handle system calls, CLOCK_BOOTTIME, an option to force all interrupt handlers to run as threads, ipset, the transcendent memory core, the media controller subsystem, the CHOKe flow scheduler, and much more; see the long-format changelog for details.

Stable updates: the 2.6.32.36, 2.6.33.9, 2.6.37.6, and 2.6.38.2 stable kernel updates were released on March 28. Each contains another long list of important fixes; note that the 2.6.37.6 update will be the last for the 2.6.37 series.

Previously, 2.6.32.35 was released on March 24 with a single build fix.

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