Final release for the 7.2 stable series
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.15 kernel, with a handful of updates. Note, this is the LAST 7.2.y kernel release.
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Dolda2000 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · illustrativeKernel 7.2.15 marks the final release for the 7.2 stable series. The 7.2.y branch is now end-of-life, and users should migrate to 7.3.y. The release includes a small set of updates but no breaking changes are noted.
The 7.2 series reached end-of-life sooner than the typical support window. Maintainers determined that continuing support would require keeping eight kernel branches active simultaneously, which was deemed unsustainable given the current release cycle and the volume of pending patches queued for stable updates.
Users running 7.2.15 should plan their upgrade path to 7.3.y. No specific timeline for the transition is provided, but staying on an end-of-life branch means forgoing future security fixes and maintenance updates.
What happened
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.2.15 kernel, with a handful of updates. Note, this is the LAST 7.2.y kernel release. After this one the 7.2.y kernel tree is end-of-life. And yes, you aren't imagining things, this one went "end-of-life" a bit sooner than normal. But based on the release cycle at the moment, and the number of pending cc: stable patches in the queue, I figured it was better this way so we can focus on the latest 7.3.y release as it would require us to keep 8 different branches alive at the same moment, a taxing task under the best of times.
How this story arrived
Ordered by when each source was first observed, which is what the velocity figure is computed from. Publishers backdate; observed order does not.
- 01 Lwn first seen Final release for the 7.2 stable series
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