Kernel release status

[Posted March 3, 2021 by corbet]

The current development kernel is 5.12-rc1, released on schedule (on February 28) despite getting a late start. Linus said:

So I was actually without electricity for six days of the merge window, and was seriously considering just extending the merge window to get everything done. As you can tell, I didn't do that. To a large part because people were actually very good about sending in their pull requests, so by the time I finally got power back, everything was nicely lined up and I got things merged up ok. But partly this is also because 5.12 is a smaller release than some previous ones.

Stable updates: 5.11.2, 5.10.19, and 5.4.101 were released on February 26. The 5.11.3, 5.10.20, 5.4.102, 4.19.178, and 4.14.223 updates are in the review process. These updates are due anytime; they are also massive and have been through a couple of revisions during review.