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Kernel release status
The 3.9 merge window is open so there is no current development
kernel. See the separate article below for a summary of changes merged
into the mainline for 3.9 so far.
Stable updates: 3.4.33 and 3.0.66 were released on February 21; they are single-patch updates fixing a security issue in the printk() code. 3.5.7.6 was released on February 22, and 3.7.10 (the final planned 3.7 update) was released on February 27. As of this writing, the 3.8.1, 3.4.34, and 3.0.67 updates are in the review process; they can be expected on or after February 28. (Log in to post comments)
3.5.7.6? Posted Feb 28, 2013 2:17 UTC (Thu) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] Is the Linux kernel using 4-level versioning again? Or, is this just Ubuntu's LTS strategy? Perhaps I just answered my own question. Discussion, anyone?
3.5.7.6? Posted Feb 28, 2013 3:59 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
every distro adds another level to the kernel versioning to indicate which sets of patches they have added to their 'base' kernel
some do it as a .#, some do it as -#, but every distro that maintains it's own kernel patches needs to differentiate between the different versions of 3.5.7 that they have shipped.
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