Kernel release status
The current development kernel is 5.16-rc3, released
on November 28. Linus said: "
So rc3 is usually a bit larger than rc2 just because people had some time to start finding things. So too this time, although it's not like this is a particularly big rc3."
The 5.16-rc2 prepatch was released on November 21.
Stable updates have not been in short supply over the last two weeks:
- 5.15.3, 5.14.20, and 5.10.80 (November 18).
- 5.15.4, 5.14.21, 5.10.81, and 5.4.161 (November 22).
- 5.15.5 (November 25).
- 5.10.82, 5.4.162, 4.19.218, 4.14.256, 4.9.291, and 4.4.293 (November 26).
- 5.15.6, 5.10.83, 5.4.163, and 4.19.219 (December 1).