Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 release is 2.6.2-rc2, which Linus announced on January 25. Changes since -rc1 include a number of architecture updates, an IrDA update, and various fixes. See the long-format changelog for the details.

The latest patch set from Andrew Morton is 2.6.2-rc2-mm1. Changes in recent -mm kernels include compilation fixes for gcc 3.5, more scheduler tweaks, a new "_relaxed" API for unordered I/O memory accesses, some code for finding dangerous sleep_on() calls (see below), x86_64 kgdb support, and many other fixes.

The current 2.4 kernel is 2.4.24; Marcelo released 2.4.25-pre7, which includes a set of architecture and filesystem updates, on January 23. Marcelo also notes that 2.4 development will not freeze before 2.4.27; there is already a set of important patches that will need to go into 2.4.26.

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Kernel release status

Posted Jan 29, 2004 3:38 UTC (Thu) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

Not that I'm complaining. But wasn't this supposed to be Andrew Morton's show? Is Linus just handling the actual details of the release with Andrew doing the back end work, or is Linus not really ready to let go of 2.6? I have not been following lkml like I used to.

Kernel release status

Posted Jan 29, 2004 10:43 UTC (Thu) by ludo (subscriber, #5052) [Link]

This is a combined effort. The Andrew Morton's tree will be there as a test-bed for the normal kernel. It will be much easier for him to push patches to the main tree than for mere mortals like us ;)

Linux will completely stop working on 2.6 when 2.7 is out.