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The current development kernel release is 2.4.0-test2. Here is Linus' announcement. It is a large new patch, with most of Alan's patches integrated. Check this listing of the 1350 modified files. Yet, Linus assures us the patch is perfect:
Normally, when you integrate almost 5MB of patches, bad things happen. This time, a miracle occurred. As I uploaded the resultant kernel, a specter of the holy penguin appeared before me, and said "It is Good. It is Bugfree".

As if wanting to re-assure me that yes, it really =was= the holy penguin, it finally added "Do you have any Herring?" before fading out in a puff of holy penguin-smoke. Only a faint whiff of rancid fish remains as I type in these words..

In short, not only are most of Alan's patches integrated, I have it on higher authority that the result is perfect.

So if it doesn't compile for you, you must be doing something wrong.

Of course, someone quickly pointed out that, though it compiled, it did not actual run for him ...

Meanwhile, the first prepatch for test3 is already out. Anyone complaining about IDE timeouts, linker errors, etc on 2.4.0-test2 should move to test3-pre1 or apply this patch from Jens Axboe. Alan has also released 2.4.0test2-ac2 as part of the effort to gauge how much more work remains.

The current stable kernel release is still 2.2.16. Alan released 2.2.17pre6 on June 22nd, and has quickly worked his way up to 2.2.17pre9 as the week progressed. No word is available on when 2.2.17 will be released.

Other patches and updates released this week include:

  • Peter Chubb released a new version of the per-process RSS limits for 2.2.16, as part of the effort to get the setrlimit(RLIMIT_RSS,...) call to work.

  • The latest devfs patch from Richard Gooch is devfs v174.

  • Chip Salzenberg released a patch for the 2.2 series to get O_NONBLOCK working with SCSI devices.

  • ReiserFS 3.6.10 has been released.

  • Andrey Savochkin has released IV-0004 of his user beancounter patch "intended to provide advanced resource control and protection against local denial-of-service attacks"

  • A backport of Andre Hedricks latest ide drivers to 2.2.16pre6 is available.

  • Ulrich Windl has announced a prereleaseof his PPSkit for 2.2.16.

  • Version 1.0.9b of the Rule Set Based Access Control (RSBAC) package has been released.

Section Editor: Jonathan Corbet


June 29, 2000

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