Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The 3.1 merge window is still open. See the summary below for what has been merged in the last week.

Stable releases: The 2.6.35.14 longterm kernel was released on August 1.

The 2.6.39.4 stable kernel was released on August 3: "Please note, this is the LAST release of the 2.6.39 kernel series. All users of 2.6.39 should be moving to 3.0 right now. This tree is now end-of-life, please plan accordingly."

The 3.0.1 stable kernel is currently in the review process. It can be expected to be released on or after August 5.

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And your userspace environment may explode for your pleasure...

Posted Aug 5, 2011 8:16 UTC (Fri) by rankincj (subscriber, #4865) [Link]

Given that the latest kernel has been deployed into Fedora 15 as "2.6.40", it sounds like a lot of people's userspace environments aren't going to cope with a kernel that calls itself "3.0".

Is there a list of the packages that are currently known to need upgrading, please?