Kernel release status

[Posted July 28, 2004 by corbet]

The current 2.6 prepatch remains 2.6.8-rc2; no new prepatches have been released over the last week.

Linus has been committing patches to his BitKeeper repository, however; they include lots more code annotations and fixups, various networking fixes, some NX improvements for old binary support, and a number of other fixes. Things appear to be stabilizing for the real 2.6.8 release.

The current prepatch from Andrew Morton is 2.6.8-rc2-mm1. Recent additions to -mm include the pmdisk/swsusp merge (covered here last week), some performance counter tweaks (enables inheritance of settings across fork() and exec()), some scheduling domains cleanup work, various latency reductions, and a large number of other fixes.

The current 2.4 prepatch is 2.4.27-rc3 and has been since July 3.