Kernel prepatch 5.5-rc5 and stable updates
The 5.5-rc5 kernel prepatch has beenreleased. Linus added a note to the release announcement: "One sadpiece of news I got this past week was that Bruce Evans has passed away. Bruce wasn't really ever really much directlyinvolved in Linux development - he was active on the BSD side - but he wasthe developer behind Minix/i386, which was what I used for the originalLinux development in the very early days before Linux becameself-hosting."
On the stable-update side,5.4.8,4.19.93,4.14.162,4.9.208, and4.4.208 are all available with another setof important fixes.