Kernel release status

[Posted January 10, 2024 by corbet]

The 6.7 kernel is out, released on January 7. Linus said:

End result: 6.7 is (in number of commits: over 17k non-merge commits, with 1k+ merges) one of the largest kernel releases we've ever had, but the extra rc8 week was purely due to timing with the holidays, not about any difficulties with the larger release.

Some of the headline features in this release are: the removal of support for the Itanium architecture, the first part of the futex2 API, futex support in io_uring, the BPF exceptions mechanism, the bcachefs filesystem, the TCP authentication option, the kernel samepage merging smart scan mode, and networking support for the Landlock security module. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the (in-progress) KernelNewbies 6.7 page for more information.

Stable updates: 6.6.10, 6.1.71, 5.15.146, and 5.10.206 were released on January 5, followed by 5.4.266, 4.19.304, and 4.14.335 on January 8 and 6.6.11, 6.1.72, and 4.14.336 on January 10.

Note that this is the end of the line for the 4.14 stable series:

This is the LAST 4.14.y kernel to be released. It is now officially end-of-life. Do NOT use this kernel version anymore, please move to a newer one, as shown on the kernel.org releases page.
All users of the 4.14 kernel series must upgrade. But then, move to a newer release. If you are stuck at this version due to a vendor requiring it, go get support from that vendor for this obsolete kernel tree, as that is what you are paying them for :)