http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/lwf The state of the kernel Mon, 14 Jul 2008 22:27:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/lwf/2008/07/14/2626-at-last/ 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 ... http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/lwf/2008/06/27/2626-almost-there/ 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 ... http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/lwf/2008/05/05/the-shape-of-2626/ 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 ... http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/lwf/2008/04/17/2625-is-out/ 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. ... http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/lwf/2008/04/04/2625-getting-closer-and-ubifs/ The weather forecast pages are quite kernel centric - that's the area I know best. There is a user-space page, though, featuring a few important components. Many of those have been revised in recent times: The long-awaited KDE 4.0 release happened in January. This major update of ... http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/lwf/2008/03/13/ah-yes-user-space/ After updating the current conditions to reflect 2.6.25-rc4, I went into the security page and added some introductory text; I'll probably do this with the other pages as well over time. Security has been on my mind as a result of the somewhat embarrassing vmsplice() exploit. This vulnerability has ... http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/lwf/2008/03/06/security-stuff/ The 2.6.25-rc1 prepatch was released on February 10. The -rc1 release, of course, indicates the closing of the merge window and the beginning of the stabilization period for this cycle. So I've updated all of the weather forecast pages to reflect what went in and what didn't, and ... http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/lwf/2008/02/14/the-2625-cycle-settles-in/ As I predicted, Linus released 2.6.24 just before heading off to linux.conf.au in Melbourne. He's slipping, though: usually he waits until I've gotten on a plane and can't update web sites before shoving a release out the door. I'm still here, though, so the main Weather Forecast page ... http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/lwf/2008/01/24/2624-is-out/ We're still waiting for the 2.6.24 release, which seems likely to come out near the end of the month - just before linux.conf.au. While waiting, I've gone through and made a large number of small updates throughout the forecast pages. The development kernel is at 2.6.24-rc8 - probably ... http://linux-foundation.org/weblogs/lwf/2008/01/17/cleaning-up-after-the-holidays/