Linux 2.6.17
June 21st, 2006 by CrusaderVersion 2.6.17 of the ubiquitous Linux kernel was released recently; there’s discussion of the changelog up at Linux-Watch.
There was also a patch released (bringing it to 2.6.17.1) to fix a SCTP issue.
As always, you can probably upgrade via your distribution’s package management utilities; for those that don’t, the source code is available @kernel.org.
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:04 am
Of course, it could be to do with updateing or including new ideas. But I’d say that we need longer testing times before the final release.
PS: I have not wittness a system opps/crash yet. So I might have a mind set in the past or something.
June 23rd, 2006 at 9:03 pm
That was done intentionally. They decided to temporarily focus on stabliizing version 2.6.16 bugs were piling up to some extent. The 2.6.16 branch stabilization was a “Good Thing” TM.