Kernel release status

[Posted June 4, 2003 by corbet]

The current development kernel is 2.5.70; Linus has not made a kernel release since May 26.

Linus's BitKeeper tree includes some device model work, a long-sought fix for hanging TCP sessions, an improved slab allocator which performs better in busy, multi-processor situations, some kbuild tweaks, an ALSA update, a set of hash function changes to deal with algorithmic complexity attacks, a FAT filesystem rework (if you have been waiting to be able to create FAT partitions greater than 128GB, this patch is for you), a v850 subarchitecture merge, a RAID update, the removal of the long-deprecated callout TTY device (/dev/cua) support, and several other fixes and updates.

The sixth version of the 2.6 kernel must-fix list is now available; it has been split into two separate lists: must-fix bugs and not-ready features and speedups. The list (pre-split) is also available in diff form.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.20. The current 2.4.21 prepatch is 2.4.21-rc7, released by Marcelo on June 3. "Now I really hope its the last one, all this rc's are making me mad."