Linux Kernel LTS Support Reduced from 6 Years to 2 Due to Low Old Kernel Use and Maintainer Burnout

Long-term support (LTS) for Linux kernels is being reduced from six to two years.

Currently there are six LTS Linux kernels, but the oldest ones will start being dropped and not replaced.

The reason is that very few people are still using the oldest LTS kernels like 4.14 in production.

Another reason is that Linux code maintainers are burning out from the workload.

While Linux development involves 2000+ programmers per release, there are fewer maintainers checking all the code.