Kernel release status
The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.19-rc4, released by Linus on
October 30. The changelog notes that this kernel is "not scary," but
it does contain a problem in the
block layer resulting from a missed warning (see below). Quite a few
fixes made it into this release, including a fix for the change that broke
ndiswrapper. The long-format
changelog has all the details.
Patches continue to accumulate in the mainline git repository; post -rc4 changes include some networking fixes, some eCryptfs changes, and a few large architecture updates.
Adrian Bunk continues to maintain a list of known regressions in the current 2.6 prepatches.
The current -mm tree is 2.6.19-rc4-mm1. Recent changes
to -mm include the dropping of the ACPI and driver core trees due to
various problems and some i386 paravirtualization support patches.n