Kernel release status
[Posted February 12, 2003 by corbet]
The current development kernel is 2.5.60, which was released by Linus on February 10. This
release was mostly an exercise in catching up with the pile of patches that
accumulated while Linus was traveling; it includes ia32 lost
timer tick detection and compensation, self-unplugging block I/O request
queues, an ACPI update, various architecture updates, a SCSI command queue
rework, Linux Security Module networking hooks, a big user-mode Linux
update, a number of kbuild changes, 64-bit jiffies support, and a great
many other fixes and updates. The long-format
changelog has the details.
Linus's (pre-2.5.61) BitKeeper tree includes a big x86-64 update, some
fixups for signal problems in 2.5.60, some kbuild work, and another set of
AGP patches.
Dave Jones has released 2.5.60-dj2, which
adds some driver fixes and a number of 2.4 fixes to the 2.5.60 kernel.
The current stable kernel is 2.4.20; Marcelo has not released any
2.4.21 prepatches since January 29.
The current patch from Alan Cox is 2.4.21-pre4-ac4. It contains another set of
IDE fixes and a few other repairs.
