From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760825AbZEBV6W (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 17:58:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759512AbZEBV5y (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 17:57:54 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:60925 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758687AbZEBV5x (ORCPT ); Sat, 2 May 2009 17:57:53 -0400 Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 14:50:11 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Ozan =?utf-8?B?w4dhxJ9sYXlhbg==?= Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.28.10 Message-ID: <20090502215011.GA17424@suse.de> References: <20090502200413.GA7287@kroah.com> <49FCBF1C.1060603@pardus.org.tr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <49FCBF1C.1060603@pardus.org.tr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 12:46:04AM +0300, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: > Greg KH wrote: > > I'm announcing the release of the 2.6.28.10 kernel. > > > > It contains a wide range of bugfixes, and all users of the 2.6.28 kernel > > series are strongly encouraged to upgrade. Especially due to the CVE > > issues that are fixed here. > > > > NOTE, this is the LAST update of the 2.6.28 kernel series, so all users > > are very strongly encouraged to upgrade to the 2.6.29 series at this > > point in time! > > > Hi, > > Is there a policy about the end-of-life of kernel releases? 2.6.27 is at > .21 while > .10 is the last update for 2.6.28. "Policy"? heh, no :) It has been repeated many times that the 2.6.27 tree is going to be maintained for a long time. That is why I am still doing .27 releases, and will be for quite a while. The other -stable branches are moving just like they always have been, nothing is new there. Hope this helps, greg k-h