Kernel release status
The current 2.6 kernel is 2.6.16, released on March 19. A
fair number of fixes have been merged since 2.6.16-rc6, but nothing too
major. For those just tuning in, some of the big, user-visible changes in
this kernel include the OCFS2
cluster filesystem, a number of networking changes including CUBIC
congestion control, TIPC
support, and an IPv6 version of DCCP, the swap migration and direct migration patches, a new
SCHED_BATCH scheduler class, a number of new filesystem-oriented system
calls, and the error
detection and correction code. Big internal changes include the mutex changeover and the high-resolution timer code. The
long-format
changelog has lots of details.
The mainline git repository contains a big pile of patches merged for 2.6.17-rc1; see below for a summary.
The current -mm tree is 2.6.16-rc6-mm2. Recent changes
to -mm include a reorganization of the page migration code (since merged),
some high-resolution timers changes, some scheduler tweaks, and the MD RAID
reshaping patches.