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CIP is now supporting five SLTS kernels

By May 26, 2025Blog

With the first release of a 6.12-based CIP kernel, the Civil Infrastructure Platform project extends its commitment to provide super long-term supported (SLTS) kernels to the fifth series.

The new 6.12-cip support was set up to run until mid of 2035. Combined with the other four SLTS kernels, 4.4-cip, 4.19-cip, 5.10-cip and 6.1-cip, all started with 2 years distance and all running for up to 10 years, this provides a high degree of flexibility to their users when to schedule major updates on their devices. See here for further considerations around this.

The CIP kernel, just like the whole CIP project, is a community effort. Contributions in form of test reports, fix proposals, reviews, etc. are highly welcome. And if you are relying on CIP kernels in production, please consider joining the project to help us sustaining or even expanding our work.