Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current development kernel is 3.8-rc4, released on January 17. Linus was "late" a day in releasing it, which sent him on a mission to figure out which day was the most common for releases (Sunday). "Anyway, with that digression, I can happily report that -rc4 is smaller than -rc3 despite the extra day, although not by much. There's not really a whole lot that stands out: apart from one new wireless driver (the Atheros Wilocity driver) and some OMAP drm changes, the diffstat looks pretty flat and spread out. Which just means lots of small changes all over."

Stable updates were not in short supply this week. 3.7.3, 3.4.26, 3.0.59, and 2.6.34.14 were all released on January 17; the 2.6.34.14 announcement carried a warning that updates for this kernel will cease in the near future. 3.7.4, 3.4.27 and 3.0.60 were released on January 21.