Kernel release status

[Posted September 4, 2002 by corbet]

The current development kernel is 2.5.33, which was announced by Linus on August 31. Among other things, this kernel includes support for the SCTP protocol, offloading of TCP segmentation into network cards (see below), some IDE work, more memory management and file I/O improvements from Andrew Morton, more input driver work, and, perhaps, a floppy driver that actually works. The long format changelog is also available.

As of this writing, Linus's BitKeeper tree includes the removal of list_t (once again, see below), a number of memory management changes from Andrew Morton (including the NUMA discontiguous memory patch), more floppy driver fixes, and a number of other fixes and updates.

The current 2.5 Status Summary from Guillaume Boissiere came out on September 4.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.19. Marcelo released 2.4.20-pre5 on August 28; it includes a long list of fixes and a big merge from Alan Cox.

Speaking of Alan, he released 2.4.20-pre5-ac2 on September 4. It includes a number of fixes and a small bit of IDE work, but this prepatch was aimed more at stabilizing things than adding new work.

Alan has also released 2.2.22-rc2. It contains more fixes than one might expect for a release candidate; among other things, it contains some worthwhile security fixes.