Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.15-rc5, released by Linus on December 3. It consists mostly of fixes, but also includes some changes for drivers which map memory into user space (see below). The long-format changelog has the details.

2.6.15-rc4 was released on November 30; details in the long-format changelog.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.15-rc5-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include some memory management tweaks, a special test which taints the kernel when ndiswrapper or driverloader is loaded, a new set of ktimer patches, and various architecture updates.