Some operating systems, such as Ubuntu, offer two types of releases: normal, supported for 9 months, and LTS, supported for 5 years. This is something that we can also see in the core of the operating systems that motivate this blog, where, in addition to the development versions or RC and the rt (real time), a new stable version is released approximately every two months and an LTS , supported for a longer time, about once a year. And you already know what the next one will be: Linux 5.10.
La LTS version latest it is Linux 5.4, but also continue with support others like Linux 4.19, Linux 4.14, Linux 4.9 and Linux 4.4. At first, it was believed that the LTS version would be 5.9, but Greg Kroah-Hartman, the main maintainer of the Linux kernel, confirmed that it will finally be Linux 5.10, and this may be good news because it will include, in addition to all the improvements and tweaks from the previous two versions, support for a lot of new hardware.
Linux 5.10 adds support for a lot of new hardware
As for the deadlines, v5.10 is currently in development, the third RC having been launched last Sunday, November 8. Looking at the calendar and taking into account that seven candidates are usually released before the stable version, the next LTS version of the Linux kernel should land next December 13 if everything goes as expected, or on the 20th of the same month if Linus Torvalds thinks he needs more attention. Support will run until 2026.
The time has come, it will be the distributions that will decide if they include it to their operating systems or wait a bit longer. Ubuntu will not update its kernel until the Ubuntu 21.04 Hirsute Hippo release, but Rolling Releases will do so after a few days or when they release the first dot update. When Linux 5.10 is official, we will publish an article with all its most important news.
Always talking about Ubuntu, that if Ubuntu such, that if Ubuntu which, when there are much better distributions than Ubuntu, Ubuntu is ugly, to take a system with deb packages, I would stick with debian, but I prefer rpm distributions, like Opensuse than for mi is almost perfect, and with yast it's perfect, I use Opensuse tumbleweed and it's scary, it's great, I've been using Opensuse since 2005-2006.
In the case of Fedora, the kernel is constantly updated during the year that each version is supported, so this kernel will arrive and then when version 5.11 is released it will be updated.