The final 4.4 stable kernel has been released

With a more lengthy than usual message, Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the4.4.302 stable kernel; it will be the lastfrom the stable kernel team in the 4.4.x series. "Do not use itanymore unless you really know what you are doing." He notes that the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) projectis considering maintaining 4.4 into the future; those interested should contact CIP. He also added some statistics showing a nearly six-year lifetime for the branch with 8.44changes per day from over 3500 developers.

It was a good kernel branch, helped out by many to work as well as ithas, thanks to all for your help with this. It has powered manymillions, maybe a few billion, devices out in the world, but now it'stime to say good-bye.