Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current development kernel is 4.9-rc3, released on October 29. "It turns out that the bug that we thought was due to the new virtually mapped stacks during the rc2 release wasn't due to that at all, but a block request queuing race condition. So people who turned off the new feature weren't actually avoiding it at all." The new feature appears to be solid, but more testing is always welcome.

The October 30 known regressions list has 14 entries.

Stable updates have had a busy week. 4.8.5 and 4.4.28 were released on October 28, 4.8.6 and 4.4.29 were released on October 31, and 4.4.30 came out later the same day.