Linux Kernel 5.19 Reached End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.0
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Linux Kernel 5.19 Reached End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.0
Linux kernel 5.19 was released on July 31st, 2022, and it’s a short-lived kernel branch, which means that it is supported with maintenance updates for about three months. It introduced new features like support for ZSTD-compressed firmware files, support for AMD’s Secure Nested Paging feature, as well as initial support for Loongson’s “LoongArch” RISC ISA CPU architecture.
Renowned kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced today the release of Linux kernel 5.19.17, which is a pretty hefty update with 767 changed files, 7188 insertions, and 3389 deletions. But what’s most important is the fact that Linux kernel 5.19.17 is also the last maintenance release for the Linux 5.19 kernel series.
Update (by Roy)
Same in LWN now:
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The final 5.19.x stable kernel release [LWN.net]
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 5.19.17 stable kernel. "Note this is the LAST 5.19.y kernel to be released. This branch is now end-of-life. You should move to the 6.0.y branch at this point in time."