Kernel release status
So 6.9 is now out, and last week has looked quite stable (and the whole release has felt pretty normal)." Significant changes in this release include the ability to create pidfds for individual threads, the BPF arena subsystem, the BPF token security mechanism, truncate() support in io_uring, support for the Rust language on 64-bit Arm systems, weighted interleaving in the memory-management subsystem, the device-mapper virtual data optimizer target, initial FUSE passthrough support, and more.
See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) for more information.
Stable updates: none have been released in the last week.
The 6.8.10,
6.6.31,
6.1.91,
5.15.159,
5.10.217,
5.4.276, and
4.19.314
stable updates are in the review process; they are due on May 16.