Kernel release status

The 3.1 kernel is out, released by Linus on October 24. Headline features in this somewhat delayed release include improved Xen memory management, enhancements to process tracing (the PTRACE_SEIZE command), enhancements to lseek() to ease the finding of holes in files, OpenRISC architecture support, and more.

As of this writing, some 4400 patches have been pulled into the mainline for the 3.2 release. Trees pulled thus far include networking, USB, staging, and security; a full merge window summary will appear in next week's edition.

Stable updates: 3.0.8 was released on October 25 with the usual pile of important fixes.

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