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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Apr 20 2020 - 08:41:43 EST
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NOTE: this is going to be the LAST 5.5.y release, after this one, it will be
end-of-life, please move to 5.6.y at this point in time.
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Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,159
Original Poster
Rep:
Year 2020, Round 27
Another batch of kernel updates has been scheduled for release on Friday, 24 April 2020, at approximately 10:00, GMT.
If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Thursday (depending on your time zone).
There will be 166 patches in the 5.6.7 update, 118 in 5.4.35, 64 in 4.19.118, 199 in 4.14.177, 125 in 4.9.220 and, finally, 100 patches in the 4.4.220 update.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,159
Original Poster
Rep:
A second round of release candidates has been announced for the 4.14.177, 4.9.220 and 4.4.220 kernel updates. They are now scheduled for release on Saturday, 25 April 2020, at approximately 10:30 GMT.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
Posts: 9,159
Original Poster
Rep:
Year 2020, Round 28
Another batch of kernel updates has been scheduled for release on Thursday, 30 April 2020, at approximately 18:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available late Wednesday or early Thursday (depending on your time zone).
There will be 167 patches in the 5.6.8 update, 168 in the 5.4.36 update and 131 in the 4.19.119 update.
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