Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 2.6.0-test8, which was released by Linus on October 17. This patch includes a working NFS direct I/O implementation, a workaround for the Athlon prefetch bug, various architecture updates, working signal handling for kernel threads, an ALSA update, some software suspend work, and numerous other fixes. The long-format changelog has the details.

Linus's BitKeeper repository is full of stability fixes, as is appropriate for his current goal of getting 2.6.0 in shape. It also includes an SGI Altix serial console driver and Jeff Garzik's libata driver (covered here last August).

The current stable kernel is 2.4.22; Marcelo has not released any 2.4.23 prepatches since 2.4.23-pre7 on October 9.

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