This time I held off the -rc for fear of an ugly-looking resume regression that Rafael had been looking at, but instead of being something nasty and fundamental, it turned out to be a trivial driver bug (where "trivial" here means "nasty and hard to figure out, but not some fundamental code breakage").

The 2.6.31 kernel was released on September 9.  The 2.6.31 development cycle, lasting exactly three months,  saw the addition of almost 11,000 individual changes from over 1100 developers representing almost 200 different companies.  2.6.31 has  408,000 more lines of code than 2.6.30.

The Reiser4 file-system has been around since 2004 but has not reached a point of being close to be included in the mainline Linux kernel, especially after the lead developer, Hans Reiser, was convicted of murdering his wife.

It's been over two weeks since -rc5, partly because of a very quiet week there due to lots of kernel people (including me) being in Tokyo for the annual kernel summit, but also partly because we had an annoying problem with ext4 filesystem corruption after unclean shutdowns.