Current kernel release status

The current development kernel is 2.5.26, which was announced by Linus on July 16. Changes include some ACPI updates, the "direct to BIO for O_DIRECT" patch (see last week's LWN Kernel Page), a number of NTFS updates, some USB changes, some IDE fixes, an ARM update, and a great many other changes. The long-format changelog is also available.

The latest prepatch from Dave Jones (as of this writing) is 2.5.25-dj2, released on July 12. The most significant feature of this release, perhaps, is that Dave has included the 2.4 IDE "foreport" (also discussed last week).

The latest 2.5 status summary from Guillaume Boissiere came out on July 17.

The current stable kernel is still 2.4.18. The second 2.4.19 release candidate showed up on the kernel.org sites on July 17, but Marcelo has not posted any sort of changelog or announcement.

The current prepatch from Alan Cox is 2.4.19-rc1-ac7. Alan has been merging a lot of code for the IBM "Summit" architecture, PA-RISC, and more.

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