Kernel release status
The current development kernel is 5.17-rc7, released
on March 6. This should be the final -rc for this development series:
"
as things stand, I expect that final 5.17 will be next weekend unless something surprising comes up".
Stable updates: 5.16.13,
5.15.27,
5.10.104,
5.4.183,
4.19.233,
4.14.270, and
4.9.305 were released on March 8 after
an abbreviated review cycle; as Greg Kroah-Hartman explained: "this one had to go out a bit sooner for reasons I don't want
to speculate about
".
Those reasons appear to be a need to clear the decks for
5.16.14,
5.15.28,
5.4.184,
4.19.234,
4.14.271, and
4.9.306,
which contain the mitigations for the branch
history injection Spectre vulnerabilities. They are ostensibly due on
March 11, but it would not be entirely surprising if they were
released earlier.