Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.14.3, released on November 24. This release contains a fair number of patches with important fixes.

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.15-rc3, released by Linus on November 28. It consists mostly of fixes, as is appropriate at this stage of the kernel process, but there is also the VM_UNPAGED work discussed on last week's Kernel Page (somewhat reworked by Linus since then). See the long-format changelog for the details.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.15-rc3-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include some architecture updates, "trusted computing" BIOS measurement support, an MD update, the dynamic USB ID patch, some memory management tweaks, and a device mapper update.