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"Ok, I've been slacking on the -stable front for a bit here, and didn't realize how far behind I've gotten. Everyone has been sending patches in, which is great, but now we are facing a HUGE 114 patch release," began Greg Kroah-Hartman. He continued:

"As there's no real way that everyone can review all of these patches, I've decided to split them up into 6 different categories, and will be sending patches out in these categories for review. If people can just glance over the ones in the areas they care about, I would really appreciate it."

The stable review resulted in six stable 2.6.23.y releases. The first, 2.6.23.2, contained bug fixes for the core kernel code. 2.6.23.3 contained bug fixes for architecture specific issues. 2.6.23.4 contained bug fixes for the core networking and wireless code. 2.6.23.5 contained bug fixes for networking drivers. 2.6.23.6 contained bug fixes for non-networking drivers. 2.6.23.7 contained file system bug fixes. These releases were followed by 2.6.23.8 containing a couple security fixes.

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