Linux 4.10-rc2 Released To Kick Off Kernel Testing For 2017

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 4.10-rc2 Released To Kick Off Kernel Testing For 2017

Linus Torvalds has issued the second test release of the in-development Linux 4.10 kernel. Linux 4.10-rc2 marks the first kernel release of 2017...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.10-rc2-Kernel-Released

[dungeon]

Hopefully future lts kernel would see some point, 4.9 sits there for three weeks... it might not be lts, who knows

[NateHubbard]

Well, at least I'm able to boot into it and it seems to be working correctly. The rc1 release had some AMD microcode issue or something apparently.

[Guest]

Hopefully future lts kernel would see some point, 4.9 sits there for three weeks... it might not be lts, who knows

I have a feeling they are not sure yet whether 4.9 or 4.10 will be the LTS release. But I have not heard anything so this is a gut feeling only.
Let's see if this page is updated by 4.9.1 https://www.kernel.org/category/releases.html