2.6.26 at last

July 14, 2008 | Comments Off

Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.26 kernel on July 13 - somewhat later than most people had expected. At a full three months, this development cycle took longer than some others; that is especially surprising given that the number of patches merged and new features added is somewhat less than we have seen in recent […]

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2.6.26: almost there

June 27, 2008 | Comments Off

I fell a little behind on the weather forecast pages, sorry for that. I plead that I was vacationing with the in-laws and would have gotten into serious trouble had I gone too near a keyboard. Anyway, things are caught up now.

The current prepatch is 2.6.26-rc8; when he posted it, Linus said that […]

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The shape of 2.6.26

May 5, 2008 | Comments Off

On May 3, Linus announced the release of the 2.6.26-rc1 prepatch and the closure of the merge window for this development cycle. So now we know what will be in 2.6.26, which, I predict, will be released sometime around the beginning of July.

Many developers will be pleased by the addition of the KGDB […]

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2.6.25 is out

April 17, 2008 | Comments Off

The 2.6.25 kernel has been released at last by Linus Torvalds. The plan had been to get it out a week or so ago, but a couple of stubborn problems prevented that. A marathon debugging session by Ingo Molnar turned up the last show-stopper on April 15, and the final kernel came out […]

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2.6.25 getting closer (and UBIFS)

April 4, 2008 | Comments Off

I got around to updating the forecast pages for the 2.6.25-rc8 prepatch. At this point things are getting close. My guess is that there will be one more prepatch (-rc9) sometime in the near future and the final 2.6.25 release sometime around the U.S. tax day festivities. Such as they are.
Also finally, […]

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