Kernel release status
The current development kernel is 5.17-rc3, released
on February 6. Linus said: "
Things look fairly normal so far, with a pretty average number of commits for an rc3 release".
Stable updates have, once again, been readily available this week. 4.4.302, the final 4.4.x release, started the flood on February 3. Thereafter, we saw 5.16.6, 5.15.20, 5.10.97, and 5.4.177 on February 5, but a problem was reported almost immediately after those releases, leading to the reversion of a broken patch and the subsequent releases of 5.16.7, 5.15.21, and 5.10.98. The 5.16.8, 5.15.22, 5.10.99, 5.4.178, 4.19.228, 4.14.265, and 4.9.300 releases then came out on February 8.
The (tiny)
5.16.9,
5.15.23,
5.10.100,
5.4.179,
4.19.229,
4.14.266, and
4.9.301
updates are in the review process; they are due on February 11.