Kernel release status

[Posted August 29, 2007 by corbet]

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.23-rc4, released by Linus (under the code name "Pink Farting Weasel") on August 27. It has a rather large pile of fixes; "most regressions" have been dealt with at this point. See the short-form changelog for details, or the long-form changelog for lots of details.

As of this writing, there have been no patches merged into the mainline repository since the -rc4 release. There have been no -mm tree releases over the last week.

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.22.5, released on August 22. It contains about 20 patches for serious problems. The 2.6.22.6 review process (involving a couple dozen more patches) is underway, with the release being a bit overdue as of this writing.

For older kernels: 2.6.20.17 was released on August 25 with a long list of fixes. 2.6.20.18, released on August 28, reverts two of those fixes which turned out not to be such a good idea after all.

Kernel release status

Posted Aug 30, 2007 13:44 UTC (Thu) by jzbiciak (guest, #5246) [Link] (1 responses)

Pink Farting Weasel... Is that a pink weasel that farts, or a weasel whose farts are pink? Enquiring minds want to know!

Kernel release status

Posted Aug 31, 2007 2:58 UTC (Fri) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link]

Pink Farting Weasel... Is that a pink weasel that farts, or a weasel whose farts are pink? Enquiring minds want to know!

Assuming Linus to be a grammatical geek, it's a pink weasel that farts. The alternative would be a pink-farting weasel, though I'm not sure that makes much sense on this planet. Perhaps it's a Jovian weasel...

Greg