CentOS Kernel Changelog?

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I’m probably overlooking something simple, but I can’t seem to find a concise changelog for the rhel/CentOS kernel. I’m on an oldish 6.5
kernel (2.6.32-431), and I want to look at the changes and fixes for every kernel that has been released since, all the way up to the current 6.6 kernel.

Anyone have a link to this?

Thanks!
Matt

4 thoughts on - CentOS Kernel Changelog?

  • rpm -qp –changelog | less

    (where RPM is the actual kernel rpm in a directory on your machine)

    NOTE: This works for any kernel RPM in any version of CentOS … you can download the latest 6 RPM from here:

    http://mirror.CentOS.org/CentOS/6/updates/x86_64/Packages/

    (currently kernel-2.6.32-504.12.2.el6.x86_64.rpm)

    .. OR ..

    Look here:

    https://git.CentOS.org/log/rpms!kernel/refs!heads!c7

    then pick the “tree” link (the last link in the column on the right for the item tagged as “c7”) .. then the SPECS directory, then kernel.spec file.

    NOTE: that is only for CentOS-7 on git.c.o at this time) .. here is the latest CentOS-7 kernel SPEC file:

    https://git.CentOS.org/blob/rpms!kernel/b2ed8cb9d657a1e15c2015dfb07aab75474fdbbd/SPECS!kernel.spec

  • You can get this information yourself by issuing, on a fully up to date
    6.6 machine, the following command:
    rpm -q –changelog kernel-2.6.32-504.12.2.el6

    Since the resulting output is a bit over 32,000 lines, I’ll not post it here. Use you favorite text-munging tools to stop the output at the kernel you currently have. (For grins and giggles, here’s a suggested line:
    # rpm -q –changelog kernel-2.6.32-504.12.2.el6|head -n `rpm -q
    –changelog kernel-2.6.32-504.12.2.el6|grep -n 2.6.32-431|cut -d “:” -f 1`
    * Wed Mar 11 2015 Johnny Hughes – [2.6.32-504.12.2.el6]
    – Roll in CentOS Branding

    * Sun Feb 01 2015 Radomir Vrbovsky
    [2.6.32-504.12.2.el6]
    – [infiniband] core: Prevent integer overflow in ib_umem_get address arithmetic (Doug Ledford) [1181173 1179327] {CVE-2014-8159}

    +++++++[snipped 5,789 lines, or thereabouts]++++++++++++

    – [input] wacom: do not report ABS_MISC on TPC2FG touch device (Aristeu Rozanski) [1032256]

    * Sun Nov 10 2013 Rafael Aquini [2.6.32-431.el6]
    #
    ).

    Bonus points if you figure out a better line; that was just off the top of my head. There are probably options to grep to do that for you……