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Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 6.13-rc1, released on December 1. Linus said: "And for once - possibly the first time ever - it looks like the release cycle doesn't clash horribly up with the holiday season, and we'll have time both to stabilize this release, _and_ the work for 6.14 won't be starting until well into January."

Stable updates: 6.12.1, 6.11.10, 6.6.63, and 6.1.119 were released on November 22.

The large 6.12.2, 6.11.11, and 4.19.325 updates are in the review process; they are due on December 5. Note that the 4.19.x series ends with 4.19.325: "It's been 6 years, everyone should have moved off of it by now."


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Old versions have a long life

Posted Dec 5, 2024 15:16 UTC (Thu) by jreiser (subscriber, #11027) [Link]

Using the latest released versions, under TermUX for Android 14 then "uname -r" says "4.19.181-28847731". Of course TermUX is not Linux, and neither is Android. But Linux 4.19 still exerts a very powerful influence, and is a significant place to start when hunting for features (viz: memfd_create, ftruncate), bugs, and security vulnerabilities.


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