Kernel release status
Nothing particularly odd going on this merge window. I had some travel in the middle of it, but to offset that I had a new faster test-build setup, and most of the pull requests came in early (thank you) so my travels didn't actually end up affecting the merge window all that much."
Stable updates: 5.1.3, 5.0.17, 4.19.44, 4.14.120, 4.9.177, and 4.4.180 were released in May 17, followed by 5.1.4, 5.0.18, 4.19.45, 4.14.121, and 4.9.178 on May 22.
Also notable is the release of 3.18.140,
which is the end of the line for the official 3.18 updates.
"Note, this is the LAST 3.18.y release that I will be doing on
kernel.org. I know it has been marked as End-of-Life for quite some
time, but I have kept it alive due to a few million phones out there in
the wild that depend on it, and can not move to a new kernel base due to
them being stuck with a SoC vendor that does not work upstream.
But, this does not mean the tree is dead, oh no, if only it were that
easy...
" He and others will be updating the kernel in the Android
Open Source Project (AOSP) tree.