Kernel release status

[Posted November 8, 2006 by corbet]

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.19-rc5, released by Linus on November 7. It contains another pile of fixes, many of them in architecture-specific code; the long-format changelog has the details. Linus says "there may be a -rc6, but maybe we don't even need one."

Adrian Bunk calls those "famous last words" in his 2.6.19-rc5 known regressions list.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.19-rc5-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include the latest kevent code (see below), the kernel virtual machine patch set, and some big updates to the high-resolution timer and dynamic tick code - which still has some problems.

The current stable 2.6 release is 2.6.18.2, released on November 3. Once again, quite a long list of patches has been merged into this release.

On the 2.6.16 front, 2.6.16.30 was released on November 3, followed by 2.6.16.31 on November 7. Between these two releases quite a few bugs have been fixed, including several which are security-related.

For 2.4 users, 2.4.34-pre5 came out on November 4. The first 2.4.34 release candidate is expected before too long.