Maintainers shipped a long-term kernel release that makes several memory-safety features easier to enable in production. The notes highlight allocator hardening and a gradual path for bounds instrumentation in network drivers.
Distributions are expected to pick up the release over the next two cycles. Hardware vendors were asked to test firmware interactions on ARM and RISC-V boards used in industrial gateways.
Release candidates had already been running on a public test fleet for six weeks.