" Recently the news came out (mostly from this kerneltrap article) that the 2.6 kernel tree was to continue to receive active development. Torvalds and Morton (the current 2.6 maintainer) have noted good results in incorporating patches into the 2.6 tree that in the past would have gone into a development tree. Because of this, they have decided to keep with the 2.6 tree for the foreseeable future, and only announce a 'development' 2.7 tree when enough patches are submitted that could seriously disrupt the kernel's stability.
"Linus, who normally can do no wrong, received quite a bit of flack back in the middle of the 2.4 series when he allowed a completely different virtual memory manager to be dropped in..."
