Kernel release status
[Posted August 13, 2003 by corbet]
The current development kernel is 2.6.0-test3, released by Linus on August 8. Changes
this time around include a merge of the SELinux security module, a new
print_dev_t() function which is portable across architectures (and
dev_t size changes), some power management and software suspend
fixups, an ALSA update, a bunch of CPU frequency work, some disk readahead
changes (avoiding work if the drive is too busy to do readahead anyway),
and, of course, a vast number of fixes. There has also been an API change
for block drivers; the Driver Porting
series has been updated accordingly. The long-format changelog has the details, as
usual.
Linus's BitKeeper tree contains only a small number of fixes as of this
writing.
The current stable kernel is 2.4.21; Marcelo released the second 2.4.22 release candidate on
August 8 with another set of fixes.
LWN