Linux Kernel 3.14 Series Has Reached End of Life (softpedia.com)

Slashdot reader prisoninmate quotes an article on Softpedia: it looks like the Linux kernel maintainers decided that there's no need to maintain the Linux kernel 3.14 LTS series anymore, so earlier today, September 11, 2016, they decided to release that last maintenance update, version 3.14.79, and mark the series as EOL (End of Life). Famous Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman was the one to make the big announcement, and he's urging users who want to still run a long-term supported kernel version to move to the Linux 4.4 LTS series, which is currently the most advanced LTS branch, or use the latest stable release, Linux kernel 4.7.3...

Linux kernel 3.14.79 is a very small update that changes a total of 12 files, with 45 insertions and 17 deletions, thus fixing a bug in the EXT4 file system, a networking issue related to the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) protocol, and updating a few HID, s390, SCSI, networking drivers.

Comments

It was EOLed right on schedule

[Anonymous Coward]

All Linux LTS releases have an EOL schedule, which is public, and known at least one year in advance. For 3.14, the projected EOL was August/2016. GregKH even gave it an extra month...

Current list:
https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html

Longterm release kernels Version, Maintainer, Released, Projected EOL
4.4 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2016-01-10 Feb, 2018
4.1 Sasha Levin 2015-06-21 Sep, 2017
3.18 Sasha Levin 2014-12-07 Jan, 2017
3.16 Ben Hutchings 2014-08-03 Apr, 2020
3.12 Jiri Slaby 2013-11-03 Jan, 2017
3.10 Willy Tarreau 2013-06-30 Oct, 2017
3.4 Li Zefan 2012-05-20 Sep, 2016
3.2 Ben Hutchings 2012-01-04 May, 2018

Really, this is linked right there on the front page of www.kernel.org ("Releases" link on top of page).

Don't panic

[dbIII]

Don't panic - some distros keep on patching those old kernels. That "Very long term release" is called RHEL, CentOS and probably a few others.