Kernel release status
We've certainly had smaller rc5's, but we've had bigger ones too, and this week finally felt fairly normal in a release that has up until now felt a bit messier than it perhaps should have been. So assuming this trend holds, we're all good. Knock wood."
The October 15 4.14 regression report lists nine known problems.
Stable updates:
4.13.6, 4.9.55, 4.4.92, and 3.18.75 were released on October 12; 4.9.56 followed immediately thereafter to fix
a networking bug that slipped into 4.9.55.
4.13.7 came out on October 14 with an important security fix. Finally, 4.13.8, 4.9.57, 4.4.93, and 3.18.76 were released on October 18.