Kernel release status

[Posted October 6, 2021 by corbet]

The current development kernel is 5.15-rc4, released on October 3. Linus said:

One thing standing out in the diffs might be the m68k 'set_fs()' removal - not really a regression fix, but it has been pending for a while, and it turned out that the problems attributed to it were due to an entirely unrelated m68k signal handling issue. So with that fixed, we could get rid of set_fs from another architecture.

See this article for information on set_fs() and its removal.

Stable updates: 5.14.9, 5.10.70, and 5.4.150 were released on September 30, followed by 5.10.71, 5.4.151, 4.19.209, 4.14.249, 4.9.285, and 4.4.286 on October 6.

Note that 5.14.10 has been through more than the usual number of release candidates and is not yet out; it should show up in the near future.