Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current development kernel is 5.15-rc1, released on September 12. Linus said:

So 5.15 isn't shaping up to be a particularly large release, at least in number of commits. At only just over 10k non-merge commits, this is in fact the smallest rc1 we have had in the 5.x series. We're usually hovering in the 12-14k commit range.
That said, counting commits isn't necessarily the best measure, and that might be particularly true this time around. We have a few new subsystems, with NTFSv3 and ksmbd standing out.

After the -rc1 release, Linus merged a change raising the minimum GCC version to 5.1. This change addresses a lot of annoying warning issues and also opens the door for the use of C11 features in the kernel someday.

Stable updates: 5.14.3, 5.13.16, 5.10.64, and 5.4.145 were released on September 12, followed by 5.14.4, 5.13.17, 5.10.65, and 5.4.146 on September 15.