Kernel release status

[Posted January 2, 2019 by corbet]

The 4.20 kernel was released on December 23; in the announcement Linus Torvalds said: "Let's face it, last week wasn't quite as quiet as I would have hoped for, but there really doesn't seem to be any point to delay 4.20 because everybody is already taking a break." Some of the headline features in 4.20 include network flow dissectors in BPF, the taprio traffic scheduler, peer-to-peer DMA support in the PCI layer, C-SKY architecture support, the pressure-stall instrumentation mechanism, the XArray data structure, and much more. The KernelNewbies 4.20 page has more information.

The 5.0 (probably) merge window is open, and a great deal of work has flowed into the mainline repository; see this article for a summary of what has been merged so far.

Stable updates: 4.19.12, 4.14.90, 4.9.147, 4.4.169, and 3.18.131 were released on December 21, followed by 4.19.13, 4.14.91, and 4.9.148 on December 29.