Kernel release status

[Posted November 20, 2002 by corbet]

The current development kernel is 2.5.48, which was released by Linus on November 17. This one includes the new module loader - so expect surprises if you compile with modules, and note that you need a new set of module utilities (available as a source tarball or source RPM). Other changes include boot process cleanups (part of the initramfs effort), more IPSec fixes, high-resolution times in the stat64() system call, some SCSI cleanups, a bunch of include file cleanup work, and lots of other fixes. And, of course, the fix for the denial of service vulnerability. The long-format changelog has the details.

Linus's pre-2.5.49 BitKeeper tree includes a number of module fixes, nanosecond time support for the NFS filesystem, an S/390 update, and a large number of other fixes.

The current development kernel prepatch from Alan Cox is 2.5.47-ac6. Alan continues to issue patches against 2.5.47 because "the 2.5.48 tree is a little bit too broken to run IDE development against."

The current stable kernel is 2.4.19. The second 2.4.20 release candidate was released by Marcelo on November 15; it includes a fix for the denial of service vulnerability and several other updates.

Alan Cox's latest 2.4.20 prepach is 2.4.20-rc2-ac2, which adds a number of fixes to the second release candidate.

Alan has also released 2.2.23-rc2, which is primarily motivated by the denial of service fix.