Kernel release status
So things have sadly not continued to calm down even further. We
had more commits in -rc4 than we had in -rc3, and I sincerely hope
that upward trend doesn't continue.
That said, so far the only thing that has really caused problems this release cycle has been the block layer plugging changes, and as of -rc4 the issues we had with MD should hopefully now be behind us. So we're making progress on that front too.
The short-form changelog is in the announcement, or see the full changelog for all the details.
Stable updates: 2.6.34.9 was released on April 17, 2.6.32.37 and 2.6.33.10 were released on April 15 (and quickly followed by 2.6.32.38 and 2.6.33.11 to fix a problem with the RDS network protocol), and 2.6.38.3 was released on April 14.
The 2.6.32.39, 2.6.33.12, and 2.6.38.4 updates are in the review process as
of this writing; they can be expected on or after April 21.