Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 kernel is 2.6.10, which was released by Linus on December 24. There are CIFS and DVB updates since -rc3, along with the usual pile of fixes. For those of you just tuning in, 2.6.10 as a whole includes a new kernel events notification mechanism, switchable I/O schedulers (and a new CFQ scheduler as well), in-kernel cryptographic key management, DVD+RW and CDRW packet writing support, ext3 block reservation and online resizing support, big updates for many kernel subsystems, and a handful of security fixes. The long-format changelog (1.5MB) has all the details.

Linus's BitKeeper repository, as of this writing, contains the four-level page table patch (see below), a VIA PadLock crypto engine driver, a new SKB allocation function (see below), ACPI hotplug support, the full InfiniBand patch set (covered here last November), a big direct rendering manager (DRM) rework, a new and simplified file readahead mechanism, a set of user-mode Linux patches, a big set of input patches, a new set of "sparse" annotations, an NFS update, an iptables update, support for the Fujitsu FR-V architecture, in-inode extended attribute support for ext3, some SELinux scalability improvements, and lots of fixes.

The current prepatch from Andrew Morton is 2.6.10-mm1. Recent additions to -mm include some software suspend improvements, a PCMCIA update, a number of NUMA-related cleanups, and a reiser4 update.

The current 2.4 prepatch remains 2.4.29-pre3, dating back to December 22.

Kernel release status

Packet writing