Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 2.5.32, released by Linus on August 27. It includes, of course, the IDE code replacement (see last week's LWN Front and Kernel pages). In this (large) patch you'll also find the asynchronous I/O core (covered in the August 1 LWN Kernel page), a bunch more device model work, IA-64 and PPC64 updates, the beginning of the NFSv4 merge, a bunch of input layer changes, Ingo Molnar's thread performance work, and an incredible number of other fixes and updates. The long-format changelog is also available.

Linus's current BitKeeper tree, which will become 2.5.33, contains a number of memory management performance fixes from Andrew Morton, some partition and IDE work by Alexander Viro, a set of network driver improvements, and a big pile of typo and designated initializer fixes.

The current 2.5 status summary from Guillaume Boissiere is dated August 28.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.19; Marcelo has released no 2.4.20 prepatches over the last week.

The current prepatch from Alan Cox is 2.4.20-pre4-ac2. The -ac series is now the staging area for ongoing IDE work which, by most accounts, is going well.

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