Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The 5.0 kernel was released on March 3; lest anybody read too much into the 5.0 number, Linus Torvalds included the usual disclaimer in the announcement: "But I'd like to point out (yet again) that we don't do feature-based releases, and that "5.0" doesn't mean anything more than that the 4.x numbers started getting big enough that I ran out of fingers and toes."

Headline features from this release include the energy-aware scheduling patch set, a bunch of year-2038 work that comes close to completing the core-kernel transition, zero-copy networking for UDP traffic, the Adiantum encryption algorithm, the seccomp trap to user space mechanism, and, of course, lots of new drivers and fixes. See the KernelNewbies 5.0 page for lots of details.

Stable updates: 4.20.14, 4.19.27, 4.14.105, and 4.9.162 were released on March 6.

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Posted Mar 8, 2019 11:42 UTC (Fri) by kmweber (guest, #114635) [Link] (1 responses)

Given that 2.6 went up to 2.6.39, I'd like to give Linus my condolences for the unfortunate accidents he must have suffered since then ;)

Kernel release status

Posted Mar 10, 2019 14:01 UTC (Sun) by tao (subscriber, #17563) [Link]

Maybe Tove, his wife, helped him count before, but injured her hands in some karate competition?