Kernel release status

[Posted August 10, 2005 by corbet]

The current stable 2.6 release is 2.6.12.4, which was announced on August 5.

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.13-rc6, released by Linus on August 7. This prepatch contains a fix for recent aic7xxx performance problems (so extra testing by people with the relevant hardware is being requested), the removal of a few patches which caused regressions, and a number of fixes. The long-format changelog has the details.

Linus's git repository contains a very small number of fixes added since -rc6. It appears that the August 12 to 19 time frame for 2.6.13 found in Andrew Morton's kernel status report may be just about right.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.13-rc5-mm1. Recent additions to -mm include a relayfs update, a new kzalloc() function (see below), some debugging helpers from the realtime preemption patch set, some architecture updates, and lots of fixes.

The current 2.4 prepatch is 2.4.32-pre3, released by Marcelo on August 8. This prepatch adds a handful of fixes and a 2.6 serial ATA backport.