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Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 2.6.0-test3, released by Linus on August 8. Changes this time around include a merge of the SELinux security module, a new print_dev_t() function which is portable across architectures (and dev_t size changes), some power management and software suspend fixups, an ALSA update, a bunch of CPU frequency work, some disk readahead changes (avoiding work if the drive is too busy to do readahead anyway), and, of course, a vast number of fixes. There has also been an API change for block drivers; the Driver Porting series has been updated accordingly. The long-format changelog has the details, as usual.

Linus's BitKeeper tree contains only a small number of fixes as of this writing.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.21; Marcelo released the second 2.4.22 release candidate on August 8 with another set of fixes.


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