Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.19-rc6, released on November 15. It contains a fair number of fixes, but one hopes that most of the problems have been taken care of by now (though the latest version of the 2.6.19 known regressions list (November 21) still contains nine entries). See the long-format changelog for the details.

Almost 90 fixes have gone into the mainline git repository since -rc6, as of this writing. There has been no word on whether that's enough to force the release of a 2.6.19-rc7 before this cycle comes to an end or not.

There have been no -mm releases over the last week.

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.18.3, released on November 18. It contains a fair number of fixes, at least one of which is security-related.

Adrian Bunk has released 2.6.16.32 with quite a few fixes. 2.6.16.33-rc1 is also available.

On the 2.4 front, Willy Tarreau has released 2.4.33.4 with a couple of security patches and a number of other fixes. 2.4.34-pre6 is also out, adding a relatively small number of patches.