Dave reports that Linux kernel 2.4.17-pre2 has been released. Read more for the Changelog…
– Remove userland header from bonding driver (David S. Miller)

– Create a SLAB for page tables on i386 (Christoph Hellwig)

– Unregister devices at shaper unload time (David S. Miller)

– Remove several unused variables from various places in the kernel (David S. Miller)

– Fix slab code to not blindly trust cc_data(): it may be not valid on some platforms (David S. Miller)

– Fix RTC driver bug (David S. Miller)

– SPARC 32/64 update (David S. Miller)

– W9966 V4L driver update (Jakob Jemi)

– ad1848 driver fixes (Alan Cox/Daniel T. Cobra)

– PCMCIA update (David Hinds)

– Fix PCMCIA problem with multiple PCI busses (Paul Mackerras)

– Correctly free per-process signal struct (Dave McCracken)

– IA64 PAL/signal headers cleanup (Nathan Myers)

– ymfpci driver cleanup (Pete Zaitcev)

– Change NLS “licenses” to be “GPL/BSD” instead only BSD. (Robert Love)

– Fix serial module use count (Russell King)

– Update sg to 3.1.22 (Douglas Gilbert)

– ieee1394 update (Ben Collins)

– ReiserFS fixes (Nikita Danilov)

– Update ACPI documentantion (Patrick Mochel)

– Smarter atime update (Andrew Morton)

– Correctly mark ext2 sb as dirty and sync it (Andrew Morton)

– IrDA update (Jean Tourrilhes)

– Count locked buffers at balance_dirty_state(): Helps interactivity under heavy IO workloads (Andrew Morton)

– USB update (Greg KH)

– ide-scsi locking fix (Christoph Hellwig)Download: http://www.kernel.org/mirrors/

Dave writes “Changelog:pre5:
– Patrick Mochel: driver model infrastructure, part 1
– Jens Axboe: more bio fixes, cleanups
– Andrew Morton: release locking fixes
– Al Viro: superblock/mount handling
– Kai Germaschewski: AVM Fritz!Card ISDN driver
– Christoph Hellwig: make cramfs SMP-safe.Download: http://www.kernel.org/mirrors/”

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LinuxSecurity: “This week, advisories were released for wu-ftp, imp, rpm, postfix, sasl, and sendmail. The vendors include Caldera, Conectiva, Immunix, Red Hat, Slackware and SuSE.” Read more here.

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