Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 prepatch remains 2.6.16-rc1. Linus has been busily merging patches, however, with the apparent aim of releasing -rc2 immediately after this article is published. 2.6.16-rc2 will contain a lot of fixes, but it also has another set of semaphore-to-mutex conversions, a USB driver for ET61X151 and ET61X251 camera controllers, a big Video4Linux update, the direct migration patches, and various architecture updates.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.16-rc1-mm4. Recent changes to -mm include some per-CPU variable tweaks, a representation of system CPU topology in sysfs, and various fixes. As Andrew puts it: "Things have been pretty quiet lately - most activity seems to be concentrated about putting bugs into the various subsystem trees."

The current stable 2.6 release is 2.6.15.2, announced on January 30. It includes a handful of fixes and a security patch. Expect another update before too long, however, as a few "box-killing bugs" are still known to exist in 2.6.15.

The stable kernel team has recently agreed to continue support for the previous kernel for a little longer. The result is 2.6.14.7, with a handful of important fixes.

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Kernel release status

Posted Feb 2, 2006 12:21 UTC (Thu) by Sho (guest, #8956) [Link] (1 responses)

Hm, can anyone spill some details on the recent flurry of activity in Video4Linux?

Kernel release status

Posted Feb 3, 2006 15:15 UTC (Fri) by zooko (guest, #2589) [Link]

Yeah, what's going on in there? I need to use my Apple iSight as a security camera -- motion triggered -- to protect my equipment from thieves.