The Latest Kernel Release.

cwizardone · 05-27-2024, 04:32 PM

Year 2024, Round 26
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Wednesday, 29 May 2024, at approximately 18:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Tuesday (depending on your time zone).
The details:

6.9.3-rc1, with 427 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...5.3/03061.html

6.8.12-rc1, with 493 patches, https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...5.3/03074.html

gbschenkel · 05-29-2024, 07:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gbschenkel

Kernel 6.9.x is giving issues with f2fs, I needed to rollback to 6.6.29. Each start the fsck was checking for errors on superblocks, both in ssd sata and nvme, rolling back, after the first reboot with kernel, it ran again fsck but appears it fixed, and after the following reboot it stopped.
This new version have new features with f2fs but I think is not 100% free of bugs.

The kernel devs replied my email about this issue.

Quote:

Hi, We're aware of this issue, and the potential fix [1] was merged in 6.9.3-rc1 in https://lore.kernel.org/stable/ZlT50...uo.ucw.cz/T/#t
Could you please check that patch addresses your problem?
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/stable/ZlT50...1a8eb31bc11f0c

I didn't have time to rebuild the kernel, but will try today, at night.

cwizardone · 05-30-2024, 06:54 AM

Kernel updates 6.9.3 and 6.8.12 [EOL] are now available at, https://www.kernel.org
The change logs,
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...hangeLog-6.9.3

https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/ker...angeLog-6.8.12

Quote:

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Thu May 30 2024 - 03:59:26 EST......
Note, this the LAST 6.8.y release, this branch is now end-of-life. Please move
to the 6.9.y branch at this point in time........

https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/...5.3/06744.html