Kernel release status

[Posted August 16, 2011 by corbet]

The current development kernel is 3.1-rc2, released on August 14. "Hey, nice calm first week after the merge window. Good job. Or maybe people are just being lazy, and everybody is on vacation. Whatever. Don't tell me. I'm reasonably happy, I want to stay that way." Details can be found in the full changelog. The code name for this kernel, incidentally, has been changed to "wet seal."

Stable updates: the 2.6.32.45, 2.6.33.18, and 3.0.2 stable updates were released on August 15. They contain the usual pile of fixes. All three updates also include a change how TCP sequence numbers are generated; a (relatively) insecure 24-bit MD4 algorithm has been replaced by 32-bit MD5. 3.0.3 was released on August 17 with another set of useful fixes.