I'm sorry I didn't think about it earlier, but it was time for the kernel to be moved, so I did it. So this is (perhaps a little late), a draft for the announcement: Linux 2.6.25 moves to core It took much longer than usual, I'm sorry for that, but kernel26 can now be moved to core. Here are the changes: - Configuration has been reviewed completely, some more drivers have been enabled, configurations for both architectures are now in sync - IO accounting has been enabled, this makes it possible to use iotop - Cleaned up the kernel patches, everything is now in one big -ARCH patch, for details look at http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=linux-2.6-ARCH.git;a=summary Problems: - The USB subsystem can now only be accessed by GPL kernel modules. Therefore, the slmodem USB module does no longer work. I compiled the slmodem package without the slusb.ko module, I have no idea if this is still useful. - martian no longer compiles, I have no idea why and didn't find a fix for it. - Some users report that their iwl4965 is broken in 2.6.25, while others say it works fine. See these two bug reports: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10389, http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10442 I advise all affected users to keep a copy of the old kernel26 and module packages or not to update at all.