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Stable kernels 5.8.5 and 5.7.19

([Kernel] Aug 27, 2020 18:11 UTC (Thu) (jake))


Greg Kroah-Hartman has released the [1]5.8.5 and [2]5.7.19 stable kernels with a relatively small number of fixes. Note that this is the last release for the 5.7.x kernel series, so users should move to 5.8.5 along with those on 5.8.x.



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/829713/

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/829714/

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