Originally posted by Azrael5
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A bit late to reply to this. Linux 4.5 is now at the RC7 stage and should be released on Sunday the 13th of March. So yes, I did think and still "think that 4.5 final release will be issued on mid of march" .
As bridgman said, the release schedule tends to be quite consistent and predictable: When the merge window closes, RC1 is released, and from then on, a new RC is released every week, usually until reaching RC7. Then the final kernel is released one week later. More RCs can be released if there are important issues, or during holidays periods (it happened for 4.4 for example).
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