Linux Kernel 4.4 LTS Reaches End of Life After Six Years of Support

Posted by hanuca on Feb 3, 2022 7:36 PM EDT
9to5Linux; By Marius Nestor
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Renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced today that the long-term supported Linux 4.4 kernel series has finally reached end of life after six years of support.

Linux kernel 4.4 LTS saw the light of day on January 10th, 2016, and it was supported with a total of 302 maintenance updates for 2216 days, during which it received a total of 18,712 changes from 3532 developers and 503 companies.

Greg Kroah-Hartman remembers that this was one of the good kernel branches, which powered millions, maybe a few billion devices. But, as with all good things, Linux kernel 4.4 has now reached end of life with today’s release of the Linux 4.4.302 update.

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