Kernel release status

[Posted May 11, 2005 by corbet]

The current stable 2.6 release is 2.6.11.9, which was released on May 11. It contains a fix for the ELF loader vulnerability and a couple of other fixes as well.

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.12-rc4, announced by Linus on May 6. Changes this time around include more "sparse" annotations, a CIFS update, various architecture updates, resource limits for niceness and realtime scheduling (covered in last week's Kernel Page), a JFS update, some networking tweaks, and more. See the long-format changelog for the details.

Linus is currently on vacation, so no new patches have been added to his git repository since -rc4.

The latest -mm release is 2.6.12-rc3-mm3. Recent changes to -mm include a rework of the huge page code, a bunch of UML updates, a device mapper update, and more fixes.

Kernel release status

Posted May 12, 2005 1:53 UTC (Thu) by RedHatOpus (guest, #4260) [Link] (2 responses)

Why have you dropped information on the 2.4 kernel series?

While I know 2.6 is main stream it still has not reached the stability or capability of the 2.4 tree.

I guess is just assumed that if we ignore the 2.4 kernel we can also ignore all the hardware that the 2.6 tree does not support. Must be some logic there but I fail to see it.

2.4 information

Posted May 12, 2005 2:08 UTC (Thu) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link] (1 responses)

2.4 information still appears when there is actually something to report. But 2.4 is in deep maintenance mode, and there is little news. I got tired of saying "still no new 2.4 prepatches," so now 2.4 is mentioned only if something has happened.

2.4 information

Posted May 12, 2005 21:07 UTC (Thu) by RedHatOpus (guest, #4260) [Link]

Logic revealed