Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/947606/

The Civil Infrastructure Platform project has announced
that it will be maintaining the 6.1 kernel for a minimum of ten years past
its initial release (and, thus, through 2032).

CIP kernels are maintained like regular long-term-stable (LTS)
kernels, and developers of the CIP kernel are also involved in LTS
kernel review and testing. While regular LTS kernels are moving
back to 2 years maintenance, CIP kernels are set up for 10
years. In order to enable this extended lifetime, CIP kernels are
scoped-down in actively supported kernel features and target
architecture. At the same time, CIP kernels accept non-invasive
backports from newer mainline kernels that enable new hardware.