Eight new stable kernels

[Posted November 20, 2023 by jake]

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.6.2, 6.5.12, 6.1.63, 5.15.139, 5.10.201, 5.4.261, 4.19.299, and 4.14.330 stable kernels. They contain a rather large number of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.

Eight new stable kernels

Posted Nov 20, 2023 15:38 UTC (Mon) by birdie (guest, #114905) [Link] (3 responses)

All of them have massively been delayed for some reasons.

Eight new stable kernels

Posted Nov 20, 2023 17:41 UTC (Mon) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link] (2 responses)

Possibly because Greg was busy with Plumbers?

Eight new stable kernels

Posted Nov 20, 2023 18:25 UTC (Mon) by simon.d (guest, #168021) [Link]

I always told him not to dump big loads in his toilet.

Eight new stable kernels

Posted Nov 20, 2023 18:25 UTC (Mon) by ReillyBrogan (guest, #120840) [Link]

That, and also these are the "massive" bugfix patches that always come after the merge window closes. They usually take longer for Gregkh to work through than usual kernels. 6.5.2-rc1 for example had 603 individual patches in it, most bugfix releases for the most recent stable kernel usually are more like 70-200 individual patches. Actually, this might be the soonest Gregkh has gotten through the merge window bugfixes in the last year or so. Usually they land more on a .4 or .5 release.

Eight new stable kernels

Posted Nov 20, 2023 21:52 UTC (Mon) by xose (subscriber, #535) [Link]

And still the queues have not been completely emptied: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git/tree/

No more Wi-Fi

Posted Nov 21, 2023 8:07 UTC (Tue) by alspnost (guest, #2763) [Link] (1 responses)

The Mediatek changes have completely broken the Wi-Fi on my cheapo MT7921K chipset (integrated into the mainboard). Ho hum, back to v6.6.1 for me.

No more Wi-Fi

Posted Nov 21, 2023 13:32 UTC (Tue) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

But you cannot do that! Greg said "All users of the 6.6 kernel series must upgrade."
No exception! Even if the new kernel does not boot, you cannot postpone the upgrade!
That is what free software means after all!