Kernel release status
The current development kernel is 3.1-rc8, released on September 27. "
The diffstat is pretty tiny, with some coretemp and clock_ops patches standing out, along with a small perf-tool update and everything else being pretty much one- or few-liners. And not that many of those either." The actual 3.1 release may not happen yet for a week or so due to the kernel.org issues, but otherwise this kernel appears to be close to ready.
3.1-rc7 came out on September 21, several microseconds after the LWN weekly edition was published. Linus said:
It is becoming
clear that I might as well not release the final 3.1 until after my
upcoming vacation early October - otherwise the next merge window
would just be total chaos. A merge window with kernel.org being off
just really wouldn't work, and doing a release only to then have some
chaotic merge window followed by travel seems crazy.
Among other things, that implies that the next merge window may overlap with the Kernel Summit, which could involve some craziness of its own.
Stable updates: no stable updates have been released in the last
week.