Kernel release status
I had hoped things would start calming down, but rc4 is pretty much exactly the same size as rc3 was. That said, the patches seem a bit more spread out, and less interesting - which is a good thing. Boring is good." All told, 339 non-merge changesets were pulled into the mainline for -rc4. They are mostly fixes, but there is also a mysterious set of ARM security fixes (starting here) that showed up without prior discussion.
Stable updates: 3.10.5 3.4.56, 3.2.50, and 3.0.89, were all released on August 4.
Also worth noting: Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced
that 3.10 will be the next long-term supported kernel. "I’m picking
this kernel after spending a lot of time talking about kernel releases, and
product releases and development schedules from a large range of companies
and development groups. I couldn’t please everyone, but I think that the
3.10 kernel fits the largest common set of groups that rely on the longterm
kernel releases.
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