Kernel release status
The current development kernel is 5.18-rc1, released
on April 3. Linus said: "
In fact, at least in pure commits, this has been a bigger merge window than we've had in some time. But let's hope it's all smooth sailing this release." In the end, 13,207 non-merge changesets were merged during this merge window.
Stable updates: 4.14.275, containing mostly of backports of a set of arm64 Spectre mitigations, was released on April 2.
The first stable updates after the close of the merge window tend to be
large, and the next set doesn't disappoint:
5.17.2
(1,126 patches), 5.16.19
(1,017), 5.15.33
(913), and 5.10.110
(599) are due on April 7.