Whoop whoop! Kernel 5.10 was released yesterday. This is an LTS one, supported up to 2026 or so, and is a big deal. This is what the more long term distros (like the upcoming Debian 11) are likely to stick with, similar to what they’ve been doing so far.
Upgrading to it on a Raspberry Pi, if you are feeling adventurous, is straight-forward. Official steps are in this forum post and involves a single command.
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$ sudo BRANCH=next rpi-update *** Raspberry Pi firmware updater by Hexxeh, enhanced by AndrewS and Dom *** Performing self-update *** Relaunching after update *** Raspberry Pi firmware updater by Hexxeh, enhanced by AndrewS and Dom ############################################################## WARNING: This update bumps to rpi-5.10.y linux tree This update will install from the 'next' firmware branch. See discussions at: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=288234 ############################################################## Would you like to proceed? (y/N) *** Downloading specific firmware revision (this will take a few minutes) % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 168 100 168 0 0 1787 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 1787 100 119M 0 119M 0 0 6109k 0 --:--:-- 0:00:20 --:--:-- 3989k *** Updating firmware *** Updating kernel modules *** depmod 5.10.0-v7l+ *** depmod 5.10.0-v7+ *** depmod 5.10.0-v8+ *** depmod 5.10.0+ *** Updating VideoCore libraries *** Using SoftFP libraries *** Updating SDK *** Running ldconfig *** Storing current firmware revision *** Deleting downloaded files *** Syncing changes to disk *** If no errors appeared, your firmware was successfully updated to 6ac95f9714f53b829a9ce826f718376a53a05383 *** A reboot is needed to activate the new firmware |
Update: The default branch is now 5.10. So no need for the BRANCH=next any more.