Kernel release status
The 2.6.27 kernel is out, released by Linus on October 9. For those just tuning in, 2.6.27 includes (among many other things) UBIFS, support for integrity checking in the block layer, multiqueue networking, the ftrace tracing framework, the lockless page cache, the relocation of a lot of firmware, the GSPCA webcam driver set, and a number of extended system calls. See the always-excellent KernelNewbies summary for lots more information about this release.
The 2.6.28 merge window is currently open with around 4100 changesets merged at the time of this writing. See the article below for a summary of what has been added to the kernel so far in this development cycle.
The current stable kernels are 2.6.25.18 and
2.6.26.6 which were
released on
October 8. Both contain a long list of important fixes throughout the
kernel tree.
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