Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.28-rc8, released on December 10. 2.6.28-rc8 contains another fairly long list of fixes, including some for fairly important regressions.

Linus also notes (in the 2.6.28-rc8 announcement) that he's trying to figure out whether to release 2.6.28 before or after the holidays. He asks for suggestions, of which, one assumes, he will get plenty.

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.27.8, released on December 5. This is a large update with fixes for a wide variety of problems.

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Kernel release status

Posted Dec 10, 2008 23:42 UTC (Wed) by dberkholz (guest, #23346) [Link] (1 responses)

commit 8b1fae4e4200388b64dd88065639413cb3f1051c
Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed Dec 10 15:11:51 2008 -0800

Linux 2.6.28-rc8

Kernel 2.6.28-rc6 on Dec 10

Posted Dec 11, 2008 22:45 UTC (Thu) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]

The Doomsday kernel release!

Define "After the holidays"

Posted Dec 11, 2008 3:08 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (guest, #24648) [Link]

"After the holidays" might be sometime in middle January, depending on how you celebrate. Or how much you celebrate. ;)

Just as a prior example, Linus released 2.6.10 on December 24, 2004, at 22:30 (I'm assuming UTC here).