Kernel release status
[Posted February 13, 2008 by corbet]
The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.25-rc1, released by Linus on
February 10. It is a huge patch. Among many
other things, 2.6.25 will have realtime group scheduling, preemptible RCU, LatencyTop support, a bunch of
ext4 filesystem enhancements,
the controller area network
protocol, Atheros wireless support, the reworked timerfd() system
call, the page map patches,
the SMACK security module,
the container memory use
controller, the ACPI thermal regulation API,
and support for the MN10300/AM33 architecture. See the short-form changelog for lots of details,
or the
long changelog for more detail than anybody can cope with.
As of this writing, a few dozen small fixes have gone into the mainline git
repository since the -rc1 release.
The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.24.2, released on February 10.
This update contains a single patch fixing the vmsplice()
vulnerability. 2.6.24.1 was
released - with a rather longer list of fixes - on February 8.
For older kernels: 2.6.23.16 and 2.6.22.18 both come out on
February 10; they, too, contain the vmsplice() fix. 2.6.23.15 was released on
February 8 with a few dozen fixes. And 2.6.22.17, also with quite a few
fixes, came out on February 6.
