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Linux 4.9 Will Be the Next LTS Kernel Branch, Says Greg Kroah-Hartman (softpedia.com)
Reader prisoninmate writes: Renowned Linux kernel developer and maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman said on Friday that the next LTS (Long-Term Support) kernel branch will be Linux 4.9. The development cycle of a new Linux kernel branch doesn't take more than a month and a half or a maximum of two months, depending if the respective series will receive seven or eight Release Candidate (RC) milestones, but LTS releases are picked by veteran kernel developers from time to time when older ones reach end of life (EOL). If Linux kernel 4.8 will be a normal release with a total of seven RCs and it'll be announced on day of September 25, then the development cycle of the Linux 4.9 kernel should start with the first Release Candidate development snapshot on October 9, 2016. But if Linux kernel 4.8 will have eight RCs, then we should see Linux kernel 4.9 LTS RC1 one week later, on October 16.
The development cycle of a new Linux kernel branch doesn't take more than a month and a half or a maximum of two months, depending if the respective series will receive seven or eight Release Candidate (RC) milestones.
No. One month merge window, ~2 months with weekly RCs. If the kernel releases early the merge window widens so they're on a very stable three month cycle. You'd think an post about the kernel would do a minimum of fact-checking, but no...
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Version numbers do mean nothing, we have always said that as kernel developers.
We don't break external APIs that people use, we break internal ones all the time, for good reasons. Read stable_api_nonsense.txt in the Linux kernel source tree for why we do this.
And I will take _any_ kernel driver into the tree, just send it to me, we don't reject anything, much to many people annoyance...
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