Now I really want to know when raspbian will get linux kernel 5.6. The most recent version of raspbian came out in February 2020 and uses linux kernel 4.19, which came out in late 2018.
Wireguard was too alluring to not try though, and now I really like it. I would like to move away from my homemade pull, build, and install scripts, but not for any good/justified reason. I suppose I just like the idea of someone being responsible for a software stack that I rely on.
arch is on 5.5.6 as of 3/1/2020 (https://www.archlinux.org/download/), and it seems like the ARM porters are pretty good about keeping their project in sync (two day delay): http://de3.mirror.archlinuxarm.org/os/rpi/.
My best guess is that by April or May, Arch will do the minor version bump, and then a couple days later Arch ARM will get it.
It doesn't have the same hardware/software synergy that you like, but it might be a fun weekend experiment.
I would guess that we'll get 5.6 in the coming days.
Is the main download page the rough equivalent to `master`, and your link is like the feature branch for merging the latest kernel version into the distro?
That makes perfect sense, actually: no sense crippling install the .iso with (potentially) unstable program versions, to stymie the install process.