Kernel release status
The current development kernel is 4.20-rc5, released on December 2. Among other
things, it contains the STIBP changes described in this article. Linus is also thinking about
release timing: "
So my current suggestion is that we plan on a Christmas release, everybody gets their pull requests for the next merge window done *before* the holidays, and then we see what happens. I think we all want to have a calm holiday season without either the stress of a merge window _or_ the stress of prepping for one."
Stable updates:
4.19.6,
4.14.85,
4.9.142,
4.4.166, and
3.18.128 were released on December 2;
4.19.7, 4.14.86, and 4.9.143 followed on December 5.