Kernel release status
The current development kernel is 5.0-rc7, released on February 17.  Linus said:
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Nothing particularly odd stands out, and everything is pretty small. Just the way I like it."
Stable updates:
4.20.9, 4.19.22, 4.14.100, and 4.9.157 were released on February 15,
followed a few milliseconds later by 4.20.10, 4.19.23, 4.14.101, and 4.9.158, which contained a fix for the oversized shebang regression.
The large 4.20.11, 4.19.24, 4.14.102, 4.9.159, 4.4.175, and 3.18.135 updates came out on February 20.
 
           