Kernel release status

The current development kernel remains 2.6.0-test9; Linus has not done a kernel release since October 25.

Patches do continue to accumulate slowly in Linus's BitKeeper repository. In keeping with the current policy, these patches are restricted to relatively important fixes.

Dave Jones has released a new version of his "Post-Halloween Document", which describes new features and things to watch out for in the 2.6 kernel.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.22. Marcelo released 2.4.23-pre9 on October 30; this patch backs out a couple of previous ACPI changes which had caused problems and includes some filesystem and driver updates. At this point, Marcelo is only accepting bug fixes for 2.4.23, so, with luck, we may see the first release candidate soon.

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