Kernel release status
The 5.1 kernel was released on May 5 (announcement). Some of the significant
changes in the release include BPF
spinlocks, more year-2038 preparation,
the TEO CPU-idle governor, The io_uring fast asynchronous I/O mechanism,
initial support for pidfds (file descriptors that refer to a process), the
SafeSetID security module, and much more.
See the KernelNewbies 5.1
page for lots of details.
Stable updates: this has been a busy week for the stable kernels, with the following releases being made:
- 5.0.11, 4.19.38, 4.14.115, and 4.9.172 (May 2).
- 5.0.12, 4.19.39, 4.14.116, and 4.9.173 (May 4).
- 5.0.13 and 4.19.40 (May 5).
- 5.0.14, 4.19.41, 4.14.117, and 4.9.174 (May 8).