News: 0000831750

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Stable kernels 5.8.10, 5.4.66, and 4.19.146

([Kernel] Sep 17, 2020 16:05 UTC (Thu) (jake))


Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the [1]5.8.10 , [2]5.4.66 , and [3]4.19.146 stable kernels. They contain important fixes throughout the tree and users should upgrade.



[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/831751/

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/831752/

[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/831753/

These also remove softscroll support

Removing widely-used functionality is downright stupid for a "stable" series patch.

These also remove softscroll support

Removing widely-used functionality is downright stupid for a "stable" series patch.

These also remove softscroll support

Most likely it is a quick-n-dirty attempt at patching some security hole (syzbot has tons of crashes related to fbcon).

These also remove softscroll support

Most likely it is a quick-n-dirty attempt at patching some security hole (syzbot has tons of crashes related to fbcon).

Now I know someone out there is going to claim, "Well then, UNIX is intuitive,
because you only need to learn 5000 commands, and then everything else follows
from that! Har har har!"
(Andy Bates in comp.os.linux.misc, on "intuitive interfaces", slightly
defending Macs.)