Release status [LWN.net]

The current development kernel is 2.5.25, which was announced by Linus on July 5. It includes a 1000 HZ internal clock on x86 processors (though that may change, the real point of interest is that the internal clock has been detached from the HZ seen in user space), some SCSI midlayer work (see last week's LWN Kernel Page for a description of the plan for SCSI), a bunch of filesystem and VM layer cleanups, an NTFS update, more kbuild tweaks, and many other changes. Those wanting details can look at the long-format changelog.

Linus's BitKeeper tree for 2.5.26 contains only a small set of fixes as of this writing.

The latest prepatch from Dave Jones is 2.5.25-dj1, which catches up to the 2.5.25 kernel and throws in a number of fixes and a "fatfs crapectomy."

The latest 2.5 status summary from Guillaume Boissiere is dated July 10.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.18; Marcelo has not released any new 2.4.19 release candidates over the last week.

Alan Cox has released 2.4.19-rc1-ac1, which catches up to the first 2.4.19 release candidate and adds a small set of additional fixes.

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No news is...?

Posted Jul 11, 2002 23:53 UTC (Thu) by Acapnotic (guest, #869) [Link] (1 responses)

2.4.19-rc1, which LWN described as long-awaited at the time, was released on June 24th; about eighteen days ago. That seems like a longish time between release canidates for a patchlevel version increment... Is there a story here? Was Marcelo hit by a bus? Was the first release canidate found to be so hideously broken that it wasn't a canidate for release after all? Did the 2.4 kernel series die at Ottawa? The silence is unnerving.

No news is...?

Posted Jul 12, 2002 11:34 UTC (Fri) by Nero (guest, #2085) [Link]

The silence is indeed worrying. The story is that he wants a lot of testing, because of the IDE changes - but having a long pause between the pres does not help the kernel - it means more changes go into each pre, hence less testing is done on the bits seperately. Marcelo needs a kick in the pants IMHO.