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Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.12-rc2, announced by Linus on April 4. Changes this time include a number of architecture updates, an XFS update, some netpoll improvements, a big USB update, an ALSA update, a number of networking tweaks, and lots of fixes. Says Linus: "This is also the point where I ask people to calm down, and not send me anything but clear bug-fixes etc. We're definitely well into -rc land. So keep it quiet out there." The long-format changelog has the details.

No patches have been merged into Linus's BitKeeper repository since the -rc2 release. Given recent events, one should not expect more patches to end up there anytime soon.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.12-rc2-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include a new version of the crash dump code, a reiser4 update, a patch optionally removing all BUG() and printk() calls (shrinks the kernel but with significant side effects), an InfiniBand update, some scheduler tweaks, and various fixes.

The current 2.4 kernel is 2.4.30, which was released by Marcelo (with no changes from -rc4) on April 3.


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Kernel release status

Posted Apr 7, 2005 17:46 UTC (Thu) by dambacher (subscriber, #1710) [Link] (1 responses)

Maybe you can include the last "stable" kernel release (2.6.11.6)?

Kernel release status

Posted Apr 8, 2005 6:04 UTC (Fri) by hppnq (guest, #14462) [Link]

No no, Linus anticipates this. It's 2.6.11.7 now. ;-)

Kernel release status

Posted Apr 14, 2005 14:52 UTC (Thu) by jimwelch (guest, #178) [Link]

>> "shrinks the kernel but with significant side effects"
The article does not elaborate on what significant means!
Will it change my DNA? melt my motherboard? erase my hard drive?


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