Kernel release status

The current 2.6 kernel is still 2.6.7; it has been almost a month since that release (which happened on June 15) and no 2.6.8 prepatches have yet come out.

Linus's BitKeeper tree continues to grow, though at a slower rate. Recent additions include a new, faster scrolling mode for framebuffer consoles, a serial ATA update, various architecture updates, many fixes for a new series of locking bugs reported by the Stanford checker, a fix for a /proc permissions bug (see below), and lots of fixes.

The current tree from Andrew Morton is 2.6.7-mm6. Recent additions to -mm include packet writing support for DVD-RW and CD-RW drives, a new set of scheduler tweaks, an IDE update and various fixes.

The current 2.4 prepatch is 2.4.27-rc3, which was released by Marcelo on July 3. Very few patches were added this time around; things would appear to be stabilizing toward the 2.4.27-final release.

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