Season 2 – Episode 4 – 2023/04/24 Summary The latest stable kernel is Linux 6.3, released by Linus Torvalds on Sunday, April 23rd, 2023. The latest mainline (development) kernel is 6.3. The Linux 6.4 “merge window” is open. Linux 6.3 Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 6.3, noting, “It’s been a calm release this…

Season 2 – Episode 3 – 2023/03/09 Summary The latest stable kernel is Linux 6.2.2, released by Greg Kroah-Hartman on March 3rd 2023. The latest mainline (development) kernel is 6.3-rc1, released by Linus on March 5th 2023. Mathieu Desnoyers has announced Userspace RCU release 0.14.0 which adopts a baseline requirement of C99 and C++11, and…

Summary The latest stable kernel is Linux 6.1.11, released by Greg K-H on February 9th 2023. The latest mainline (development) kernel is 6.2-rc7, released on February 5th 2023. Linux 6.2 progress A typical kernel development cycle begins with the “merge window” (period of time during which disruptive changes are allowed to be merged into the…

Prologue This is the pilot episode for what will become season 2 of the Linux Kernel Podcast. Back in 2008-2009 I recorded a daily “kernel podcast” that summarized the happenings of the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML). Eventually, daily became a little too much, and the podcast went weekly, followed by…not. This time around, I’m…