Kernel release status
[Posted April 16, 2003 by corbet]
The current development kernel remains 2.5.67; Linus has not
released a development kernel since April 7. He has been merging
numerous patches into his BitKeeper tree, however; along with the usual
fixes there is some NFS performance tuning, some changes to the workqueue
interface, the merging of s390 and s390x into a single architecture (along
with a bunch of other s390 work), the generation of hotplug events from
kobject registration, a new __user attribute to mark user-space
pointers (to help find bugs with static analyzers), a small change to the
semantics of
msync(MS_ASYNC) (it no longer actually starts any I/O), some
reverse-mapping VM speedups, a new requirement that gcc version 2.95 (or
later) be used to compile the kernel, a big pile of small fixes from Alan
Cox, an NFSv4 update, and a big IA-64 update.
Dave Jones has posted a new version of his
"what to expect in 2.5" document. It's a good read for people interested
in testing the new kernel, or for those who are simply interested in what
has changed.
The current stable kernel is 2.4.20. The last 2.4.21 prepatch was
2.4.21-pre7, released on April 4.
