One and a half weeks after the release of Linux 2.6.36 , Linus Torvalds, the first preliminary version of the Linux kernel 2.6.37 released. He has also also the merge window closed - the first phase in the development of a new kernel version in which the kernel hackers have the bulk of the changes in the source control system of the main development branch to integrate. In this merge window Torvalds has included nearly 9,500 small and big changes for 2.6.37. 10 358 files have been changed according diffstat; 1,040,218 lines of code are new and 562 260 flew out - moved or changed source lines are included in both figures. This is 2.6.37 Linux kernel versions are among the comparatively much changes in 2.6.36 contained, according diffstat only 582 139 new lines of code.

As expected, the kernel developers have also the "INITIAL Domain Support"for Xen included. It is a key step in the operation of the Linux kernel as a controlling Xen domain (Dom0) dar. There are still missing, the backend driver to operate as a Xen Dom0 kernel, such as Jeremy Fitzhardinge recently saidhe hopes now that them in the next development cycle feed into the main development branch.

As previously announced by Torvalds Window was roughly the merge so that only eleven days instead of the usual two weeks open. Complicit in the travel plans of Torvalds and many other key kernel developers, because they are meeting today and tomorrow at the Kernel Summit - an annual coming together, the kernel developers invited to use the training and consultation. The Summit will be held this year in Boston. Immediately after, this time the Linux Plumbers Conference, which is not just about kernel issues, but also X-server udev, Pulse Audio and others to work the system critical software is for, the user typically does not directly come into contact with .