Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.16.20, released on June 5. This one contains several fixes for serious problems; none of them look immediately security-related, however.

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.17-rc6, released on June 5. There are enough fixes here that Linus decided to do one more -rc release. Details can be found in the long-format changelog.

No patches have been merged into the mainline repository since -rc6, as of this writing.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.17-rc6-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include improved force feedback support in the input driver and a large number of patches related to the locking validator.