Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 3.11-rc6, released on August 18. Linus said: "It's been a fairly quiet week, and the rc's are definitely shrinking. Which makes me happy." The end of the 3.11 development cycle is getting closer.

Stable updates: Greg Kroah-Hartman has had a busy week, shipping 3.10.7, 3.4.58, and 3.0.91 on August 14, followed by 3.10.8, 3.4.59, and 3.0.92 on August 20. A few hours later, he released 3.10.9 and 3.0.93 as single-patch updates to fix a problem in 3.10.8 and 3.0.92. In an attempt to avoid a repeat of that kind of problem, he is currently considering some minor tweaks to the patch selection process for stable updates. In short, all but the most urgent of patches would have to wait for roughly one week before being shipped in a stable update.

Other stable updates released this week include 3.6.11.7 (August 19), 3.5.7.19 (August 20), and 3.5.7.20 (August 21).

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