Kernel Log: Stable series development is speeding up, X Server 1.6 available soon
The development speed of the Linux stable series and the number of integrated changes, has been rising in the past few weeks. In February alone, the maintainers of the stable kernel series have released four new versions 2.6.28.x and five new 2.6.27.x kernels, to correct numerous flaws in the respective predecessors and add many minor improvements. As usual, the release emails by the maintainers of the stable kernel series strongly advise that all users of kernel.org kernels upgrade to the latest versions, without explicitly pointing out any security issues the new versions may resolve.
This is, for example, the case with the current versions 2.6.27.18 and 2.6.28.6, which plug a CVE numbered security hole in SPARC systems. Meanwhile, 2.6.27.19 and 2.6.28.7 are already in progress. The window for submitting comments about the proposed changes closed on Friday night, and the two new versions should be released shortly. As matters currently stand they will contain a whole range of fixes to the Ext4 file system. The kernel developers completed the main development phase of Ext4 with 2.6.28.
The development progress of Linux 2.6.29 is currently uneventful; having released 2.6.29-rc5 a week ago, Linus Torvalds will probably finalise the sixth release candidate soon. At the end of last week the list of new flaws ("regressions") in the main development branch contained about 25 known problems .
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