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 1,324,841 mainline commits from 36,340 developers as part of 103 kernel releases.

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Release information

• The current development kernel is v6.13, which has seen 12,507 commits from 1,921 developers in 6 -rc releases.
• The current mainline release is v6.12, released on 2024-11-17. It includes 13,344 commits from 2,074 developers.

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

Developer information

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