Kernel release status
The current development kernel is 4.8-rc1, released on August 7.
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This seems to be building up to be one of the bigger releases lately, but let's see how it all ends up. The merge window has been fairly normal, although the patch itself looks somewhat unusual: over 20% of the patch is documentation updates, due to conversion of the drm and media documentation from docbook to the Sphinx doc format."
Stable updates: the 4.6.6,
4.4.17, and
3.14.75 updates were released on
August 10.