14 DAY TRIAL // According to a recent tweet from the Linux Foundation’s LinuxLTSI account, it appears that the next LTS (Long Term Support) version of the Linux kernel will be 4.1, which is currently in development.
The tweet has also been confirmed by Greg Kroah-Hartman, a renowned kernel developer who is currently maintaining several kernel branches, including a few LTS ones. As such, when Linux kernel 4.1 is released, it will become the LTS version of 2015 and the most advanced long-term support release.
LTSI stands for Long-Term Support Initiative and it is Linux Foundation’s Consumer Electronics Working Group founded specifically to provide long-term and stable support for the Linux kernel for industry.
At the moment, there are several LTS branches of the Linux kernel that are maintained, and the most advanced one is 3.18. In related news, we reported earlier today that the oldest long-term branch, version 2.6.32, would reach end-of-life in the next few months.
As mentioned, Linux kernel 4.1 is currently in heavy development, and Linus Torvalds just released this past weekend the sixth RC (Release Candidate) version, also informing users that the final release might arrive sometime this summer, most probably in the coming weeks.
Those of you who want to download and test the current milestone of the upcoming Linux 4.1 kernel can do so right now from either the kernel.org website or via Softpedia, but please try to keep in mind that it is an unstable software and it should not be deployed on production machines.
Linux4.1 is LTS version of 2015!!
— LinuxLTSI (@LinuxLTSI) June 4, 2015
Yup! https://t.co/1JqJ0zWOxy
— Greg K-H (@gregkh) June 4, 2015