With the release of Fedora 11 recently, we are now back in the position of looking onwards to the next release. F11 released with a 2.6.29 kernel, and we’re already looking at doing a .30 rebase for it soon. (I was hesitant to type that, because the last time I blogged about doing a rebase, we hit some troubles and ended up skipping the 2.6.28 release for F10). While F11 was stabilising before release, devel/ had continued on, being rebased up to 2.6.30. Yesterday Kyle committed the the first rebase to get us back up to Linus’ tree of the day.

So we’re looking at 2.6.31 for F12. (With various conferences coming up over the next few months, it seems infeasible that .32 will land in time for F12′s release).

Other planned changes? We’ve talked about dropping the exec shield patch that we’ve been carrying since Fedora Core 1.
It’s a pain to have to keep carrying it, and rebasing it, and occasionally fixing it, just to add a poor emulation of a feature that has been in all CPUs for the last five years. The decision isn’t final yet, but it’s something that’s being considered.

Some of the other patches we’ve been carrying (like modesetting drm) are now starting to find their way upstream too, which is obviously a good thing. The only really big thing we’re still carrying that struggles to get upstream is utrace.

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