Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.8-rc1, which was released by Linus on July 11. The list of patches is huge; it includes the TEA and XTEA crypto algorithms, a bunch of USB work, snapshot and mirror support in the device mapper, vast amounts of "sparse" annotations and associated fixes, some virtual memory tweaks, an AGP update, an NTFS update, some read-copy-update improvements, x86 no-execute support, netlink support for SELinux, a serial ATA update, 64-bit SuperH support, fixes for locking problems found by the Stanford checker, reworked symbolic link lookups, and much more. See Linus's announcement for the brief listing of patches, or the long-format changelog for the details.

Linus's BitKeeper repository contains a small number of patches, including some network driver updates, more sparse annotations, and various fixes.

The current prepatch from Andrew Morton is 2.6.8-rc1-mm1; Andrew notes, however, that "This kernel runs like a dessicated slug if you have more than 2G of memory due to a 32-bit overflow." Recent additions to -mm include some latency fixes (see below), a set of gcc 3.5 fixes, a big user-mode Linux update, and various fixes.

The current 2.4 prepatch is 2.4.27-rc3; Marcelo has released no patches since July 3.

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