Re: 5.8 and other Fedora kernel bits

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On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 9:49 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 10:35 AM Justin Forbes <jmforbes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > We are exiting a weird period that pops up every couple of years, so I
> > figured I would explain what the current status is on a few things.
> >
> > The 5.8 kernel will be the release kernel for Fedora 33.  Yes, 5.9
> > will likely be out when Fedora 33 releases, but current projections
> > would put 5.9 on October 11th, which is just too close to the Fedora
> > 33 GA date of October 20th.  As a result of this, I waited for the
> > Fedora 33 branch before moving forward with rawhide. Rawhide will
> > start moving forward as usual again now.  The 5.8 kernels will be
> > maintained in Fedora 33 until release, and the 5.9 kernels will be
> > available as an update shortly after the Fedora 33 release.
> >
>
> Oh, that's a bit unfortunate. A lot of the upstream Fedora work on
> Btrfs has been targeting Linux 5.9 so that it would land with Fedora
> 33 GA. What should we do in this scenario?
>

Get it into stable? 5.9 was never on the plan for F33, but it will be
available probably a week or 2 after release.

Justin
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