[grsec] kernel.org 2.6.32 long term release

[Brian Kroth]

Brad Spengler <spender at grsecurity.net> 2010-01-21 23:37:
> 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

That's very good news.  Thanks again spender and pax team for your hard
work.

Cheers,
Brian