Hi!
I'm announcing the release of the 4.4.302 kernel.
This kernel branch is now END-OF-LIFE. It will not be getting any more updates from the kernel stable team, and will most likely quickly become insecure and out-of-date. Do not use it anymore unless you really know what you are doing.
Note, the CIP project at https://www.cip-project.org/ is considering to maintain the 4.4 branch in a limited capability going forward. If you really need to use this kernel version, please contact them.
Yes, please; feel free to contact us.
Greg, we'll likely keep maintaining "stable 4.4.X" separately from "stable + changes for cip hardware, aka 4.4.X-cipY". Would it be okay if we simply kept tagging those kernels as 4.4.303 / 4.4.304 / ...?
CIP project is committed to maintain 4.4.x kernel till January of 2027 [1]. We are maintaining -cip branch [2], that is stable kernel with about 1000 of patches to support our reference hardware [3] and -cip-rt branch, with is merge of -rt and -cip trees.
If you for some reason need 4.4.x with bug and security fixes, and are running similar hardware to our reference hardware (x86-64 and armv7), -cip tree may be good base for that work. Testing of the -cip tree is welcome, as is joining the CIP project.
[1] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/start [2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cip/linux-cip.git/log/?h=lin... [3] https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/ciptesting/cipr...
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Best regards, Pavel