The LWN kernel source database [LWN.net]

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 1,484,087 mainline commits from 41,513 developers as part of 113 kernel releases.

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Release information

The current development kernel is v7.3, which has seen 17,633 commits from 2,811 developers in 5 -rc releases.
The current mainline release is v7.2, released on 2026-08-16. It includes 16,418 commits from 2,652 developers.

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

Developer information

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