Yu Watanabe
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The previous minimum required version 5.4 will be EOL on 2025-12. Let's bump the required minimum kernel version to the next LTS release 5.10 (released on 2020-12-13, EOL on 2026-12, CIP support until 2031-01). The new recommended baseline 5.14 is the version that CentOS 9 uses. CentOS 9 will EOL on 2027-05. See also #38608.
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