Kernel release status

[Posted February 11, 2015 by corbet]

The 3.19 kernel was released on February 8 (announcement). Linus said: "while I was tempted a couple of times to do an rc8, there really wasn't any reason for it." Significant changes in 3.19 include support for the Altera Nios II processor architecture, device tree overlay support, the ability to attach eBPF programs to sockets, disk scrubbing and replacement for RAID 5 and 6 in the Btrfs filesystem, the execveat() system call, and much more.

The merge window for the next development cycle is currently open; see the separate article below for details.

Stable updates: 3.18.6, 3.14.32, and 3.10.68 were released on February 6, followed by 3.18.7, 3.14.33, and 3.10.69 on February 11.