[$] A last look at the 4.4 stable series

Linus Torvalds releasedthe 4.4 kernel on January 10, 2016 and promptly left the building forthe greener fields of 4.5. This kernel was finished from his point ofview, but it was just beginning its life in the wider world, and became thefirst long-term-stable release to be supported for more than two years.Indeed, the 4.4 release became one of the longest-supported and most widelyused releases in the history of the kernel project (so far); it wasdeployed in vast numbers of Android devices, among other places. The final 4.4 stablerelease took place on February 3, over six years after 4.4 was"finished"; it is time to take a look at what happened to 4.4 in itsstable life.