Kernel release status

[Posted September 21, 2005 by corbet]

The current stable 2.6 release is 2.6.13.2, released on September 16.

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.14-rc2, released by Linus on September 19. "Not a whole lot o' excitement, ye scurvy dogs, but it has t' ALSA, LSM, audit and watchdog merges that be missed from -rc1, and a merge series with Andrew." Some specific additions which came in after -rc1 include a new virtual filesystem for security modules, some DCCP additions, a number of audit subsystem patches, some netfilter enhancements, and an ALSA update. See the long-format changelog for the details.

Linus's git repository currently contains a SCSI update, some netfilter patches, an InfiniBand update, and various fixes.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.14-rc1-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include per-task write throttling, a conversion of the input subsystem to sysfs (includes some driver model changes which will need reworking prior to merging), a big reiser4 update meant to address various review comments, the removal of the perfctr patches (the maintainer is moving on and recommending perfmon instead), and some page allocator tweaks.

perfctr

Posted Sep 29, 2005 16:36 UTC (Thu) by anton (subscriber, #25547) [Link]

I have used the perfctr patch since version 1.6 in 2000 on various
IA-32, AMD64, and PPC CPUs, in particular the perfex and (more
recently) papiex tools. I feel sad that it will no longer be
maintained, especially since the supposed replacement perfmon is
apparently not quite there yet (according to the linked-to
discussion). This probably means that we will have to stick to
Linux-2.6.13 for quite some time.

Anyway, thanks to Mikael Petterson for his good work.

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