This looks like a total turnaround on policy, announced in a low-key two paragraph note to LKML. The last official kernel.org "stable" kernel release was 2.6.7

This looks like a total turnaround on policy, announced in a low-key two paragraph note to LKML. The last official kernel.org "stable" kernel release was 2.6.7 or 2.6.8, I've forgotten. Since then, kernel.org has made a policy of doing whatever the heck they like, and letting distributions sort it out -- this is the reason for the lengthy tenure of the 2.6 series. (A number of non-distributors maintained their own "stable" trees, but they weren't official.) It appears the kernel.org crew is now reverting to the old policy, wherein odd number releases are "unstable." I don't know whether that's good or bad or unimportant, but it sure is surprising.