The 5.5-rc5 kernel prepatch has been
released. Linus added a note to the release announcement: “One sad
piece of news I got this past week was that Bruce
Evans has passed away. Bruce wasn’t really ever really much directly
involved in Linux development – he was active on the BSD side – but he was
the developer behind Minix/i386, which was what I used for the original
Linux development in the very early days before Linux became
self-hosting.”

On the stable-update side,
5.4.8,
4.19.93,
4.14.162,
4.9.208, and
4.4.208 are all available with another set
of important fixes.

Source: LWN.net – Kernel prepatch 5.5-rc5 and stable updates