Kernel release status
The 5.16 kernel is out, released
on January 9. Significant changes in 5.16 include the futex_waitv() system call,
cluster-aware CPU scheduling, some internal
memcpy() hardening, memory
folios, the DAMON operating schemes
user-space memory-management mechanism, and much more. See the LWN
merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 5.16 page for
details.
Stable updates:
5.15.14,
5.10.91,
5.4.171,
4.19.225,
4.14.262,
4.9.297, and
4.4.299 were all released on
January 11.