[grsec] kernel.org 2.6.32 long term release

[Brad Spengler]

Hi Brad, (almost feels like talking to myself ;))

After some discussion and mutual agreement about future plans, the PaX 
Team and I are happy to announce that we plan on supporting the 2.6.32 
kernel on a long term basis, as indeed a number of major distros will 
be basing their kernels off it.

The main obvious thing that concerns us with these long-term stable 
kernels is the backporting of security fixes, given the continued 
attempts to fix vulnerabilities silently in only the latest kernels.  
We'll be sure to keep watch of the situation as we've been doing for 
some time now and point out vulnerability fixes we spot that need to be 
backported.

Hopefully this will provide more opportunities for organizations seeking 
more stability and less unpredictability in their kernel upgrades to be 
able to take advantage of the benefits of using grsecurity.

We will of course continue to follow the latest kernel releases in 
addition to this long-term stable kernel support.

-Brad
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