Kernel Log: New stable kernels, AMD 3D documentation and Mesa 7.3 released
Over the last two weeks, the kernel developers have released versions 2.6.27.11, 2.6.27.12 and 2.6.28.1 of the stable kernel and at the weekend they added versions 2.6.27.13 and 2.6.28.2.
All of these versions incorporate corrections and minor improvements, including a whole set of patches, contributed by IBM's Heiko Carstens, to eliminate a security vulnerability listed as CVE-2009-0029 that is said to affect only S390, PowerPC, SPARC64 and MIPS architectures. A little earlier, Torvalds accepted similar changes (1, 2 and 3) into the main development tree.
There were virtually no changes last week, because Torvalds was attending LCA 2009, where he spent some time with his "Tasmanian Devil" and tried his hand at hairdressing. Last night, following the week off, he resumed accepting changes for Linux 2.6.29, so 2.6.29-rc3 will probably appear next week.
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