Stable kernels 2.6.27.24 and 2.6.29.4

[Posted May 20, 2009 by corbet]

The 2.6.27.24 and 2.6.29.4 stable kernel updates are available. They include a fair number of fixes, some of which certainly appear to have security implications. 2.6.29.4 also has some additional user-space API support for labeled networking.

Stable kernels 2.6.27.24 and 2.6.29.4

Posted May 21, 2009 10:31 UTC (Thu) by Xanadu (guest, #1215) [Link] (1 responses)

Is there something wrong with the '28 kernel? Unless my eyes have not been friendly to me (which is not uncommon), updates are going out for '27 & '29 (and soon '30 of course). '28 *seems* to have been (almost) abandoned. Have I missed some announcement to not use '28? I'm using Gentoo's TuxOnIce 28 and it's fine on my machines (that I can tell). '29 seems good on a Debian install I'm testing out, but...

Stable kernels 2.6.27.24 and 2.6.29.4

Posted May 21, 2009 12:06 UTC (Thu) by SMISRD (guest, #50013) [Link]

Yes, the 2.6.28 kernel is no longer being updated (see http://lwn.net/Articles/331435/).