The LWN kernel source database

This is the LWN.net kernel source database, which can answer a wide range of questions about the kernel's development history. It currently contains data from 1,295,501 mainline commits from 35,552 developers as part of 101 kernel releases.

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Release information

• The current development kernel is v6.11, which has seen 12,953 commits from 1,822 developers in 4 -rc releases.
• The current mainline release is v6.10, released on 2024-07-14. It includes 13,312 commits from 1,918 developers.

See the KSDB kernel-releases page for the full (Git era) kernel release history.

Developer information

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