Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 kernel remains 2.6.18; patches continue to flow into the mainline repository for the upcoming 2.6.19-rc1 release.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.18-mm3. Recent changes to -mm include a patch to silence a lot of useless compiler warnings, a new attempt to get the swap token code working properly, swapfile support for software suspend, and the kevent subsystem.

The current 2.4 prepatch is 2.4.34-pre4, released on October 2. A small number of fixes went in this time around; 2.4.34 looks like it is about to go into the final stabilization phase.

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Kernel release status

Posted Oct 5, 2006 3:45 UTC (Thu) by paravoid (subscriber, #32869) [Link] (3 responses)

2.6.19-rc1 is out, just a few hours after the weekly edition.
You really have to cooperate with Linus ;-)

Kernel release status

Posted Oct 5, 2006 4:52 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

this happens on a regular basis. it would be interesting to find out how many releases he has made within 3 hours of LWN being published (but not quite interesting enough for me to do the legwork to find out ;-)

Kernel release status

Posted Oct 5, 2006 20:09 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

Linus was obviously waiting to see the article on what he's merged for 2.6.19, so he could tell if it needed any more major changes.

Kernel release follows LWN publication

Posted Oct 5, 2006 21:46 UTC (Thu) by jstAusr (guest, #27224) [Link]

If I remember correctly Corbet mentioned this phenomena quite some time ago.