Kernel release status

[Posted July 29, 2009 by corbet]

The current development kernel is 2.6.31-rc4, released on July 22. "Ok, that was a fun week. We had a binutils bug, a ccache bug, and a compiler bug. And that was just the bugs that were outside the kernel, but resulted in a broken build." Beyond that, it's mostly just a big pile of fixes, many of which are for newly-discovered NULL pointer problems; see the long-format changelog for full details.

The current stable 2.6 kernel is 2.6.30.3, released (along with 2.6.27.28) on July 24. This is a single-fix update to work around a compiler problem which affected 2.6.30.2 and 2.6.27.27.

The 2.6.30.4 and 2.6.27.29 updates are currently in the review process. These kernels (each containing a long list of assorted fixes) will likely be released sometime on July 30.

For 2.4 users: the 2.4.37.4 update was released on July 26. Among other things, it contains a personality-related security fix; 2.4 maintainer Willy Tarreau would appreciate more eyes on this code to help come up with a proper fix.