Kernel release status
The current development kernel is 6.18-rc1, released
on October 12. Linus said: "
This was one of the good merge windows where I didn't end up having to bisect any particular problem on [any] of the machines I was testing. Let's hope that success mostly translates to the bigger picture too."
Stable updates:
6.17.2, 6.16.12, 6.12.52, and 6.6.111 were released on October 13,
followed by the large 6.17.3, 6.12.53, 6.6.112, and 6.1.156 updates on October 15. Note
that the 6.16.x series ends with 6.16.12.