Linux Kernel 6.x Releases

guest · Oct 2, 2022

Linux 6.0 Released With Many Intel & AMD Driver Additions, IO_uring Keeps Advancing
by Michael Larabel @michaellarabel - October 2, 2022

Linus Torvalds just promoted Linux 6.0 to stable on-schedule and thereby now ushering in the Linux 6.1 merge window to officially get underway tomorrow.

It was a relatively calm this week leading to Linux 6.0 being released on time rather than warranting an extra release candidate / week delay.
Among the last minute items to be merged this week were AMD RDNA3 fixes and fixing a chipset workaround affecting AMD systems not needing a workaround for roughly two decade old systems that could hurt the performance of modern systems in select workloads.
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Linus wrote in today's 6.0 release announcement:

So, as is hopefully clear to everybody, the major version number change is more about me running out of fingers and toes than it is about any big fundamental changes.

But of course there's a lot of various changes in 6.0 - we've got over 15k non-merge commits in there in total, after all, and as such 6.0 is one of the bigger releases at least in numbers of commits in a while.
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Linux 6.0 has many shiny new features from new hardware support to new software innovations. AMD and Intel hardware in particular has seen many additions. See our complete Linux 6.0 feature list for more information on all the changes.
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Linux Kernel 6.0 Released (October 2, 2022)

guest · Oct 3, 2022

GNU Linux-libre 6.0 Released After More Blob Cleaning
by Michael Larabel @michaellarabel - October 3, 2022

Following yesterday's release of the upstream Linux 6.0 kernel, the GNU FSFLA folks have released GNU Linux-libre 6.0 as their downstream that removes driver support for loading binary firmware/microcode and the ability to load non-free-software kernel modules.

GNU Linux-libre 6.0 continues to be the kernel flavor endorsed by the Free Software Foundation for a cleaned up kernel without any non-free microcode/firmware or other caveats. Albeit with modern hardware it often means various components/devices then being unsupported by this kernel.
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More details on the GNU Linux-libre 6.0 changes via the release announcement.
GNU Linux-libre 6.0 is codenamed "-ETOOSIXY".
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tipo · Oct 19, 2022

Linux 6.0 Released With Many Intel & AMD Driver Additions, IO_uring Keeps Advancing
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Maybe this time, with the new kernel, Debian will support a larger number of wifi adapters. My laptop's adapter was not recognized so I switched immediately to Linux Mint again.

reasonablePrivacy · Oct 19, 2022

tipo said: ↑

Maybe this time, with the new kernel, Debian will support a larger number of wifi adapters. My laptop's adapter was not recognized so I switched immediately to Linux Mint again.
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I believe it is more about Debian policy rather than upstream Linux kernel.
This policy changed recently, but I believe it will not be applied to current stable version.

guest · Dec 14, 2022

Linux 6.1 Released With MGLRU, Initial Rust Code
by Michael Larabel @michaellarabel - December 11, 2022

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.1 as stable!

Linux 6.1 integrates the exciting Multi-Gen LRU (MGLRU) overhaul of the page reclamation code, the initial Rust programming language support though still being built up, the new AMD Platform Management Framework, a variety of open-source graphics driver improvements, Btrfs performance optimizations, the Kernel Memory Sanitizer, introduction of the Maple Tree data structure, and a lot of other hardware driver work. See my Linux 6.1 feature overview for a more extensive list at all of the prominent kernel changes this round.
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Linus Torvalds wrote in today's v6.1 release announcement:

So here we are, a week late, but last week was nice and slow, and I'm much happier about the state of 6.1 than I was a couple of weeks ago when things didn't seem to be slowing down.
Of course, that means that now we have the merge window from hell, just before the holidays, with me having some pre-holiday travel coming up too. So while delaying things for a week was the right thing to do, it does make the timing for the 6.2 merge window awkward.
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Linux Kernel 6.1 Released (December 11, 2022)

Palancar · Dec 14, 2022

I had to upgrade to 6.0 + kernel to get my Intel AX210 to perform correctly. Still a few kinks but mostly running great. 6E is a new creature for Linux!

guest · Feb 7, 2023

Linux 6.1 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel
by Michael Larabel @michaellarabel - February 7, 2023

Linux 6.1 was widely anticipated to be a Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel with normally the last major release series for the calendar year normally promoted to LTS status. Greg Kroah-Hartman as the Linux stable maintainer went ahead today and formally recognized Linux 6.1 as the 2022 LTS kernel.
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Greg KH was planning on Linux 6.1 being LTS given its December debut. But he was waiting on feedback from kernel stakeholders over their test results with Linux 6.1 and plans around using Linux 6.1 for the long-term. He's finally collected enough positive responses -- along with co-maintainer Sasha Levin -- that there is confidence in maintaining Linux 6.1 as an LTS series.

As of now the plan is on maintaining Linux 6.1 through December 2026, which is just a few months longer than the current Linux 5.15 LTS series that will be maintained through October 2026. We'll see over time if Linux 6.1 ends up potentially being maintained for the longer six-year LTS period that would put it through 2028.
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The Linux 6.1 LTS promotion was marked today on kernel.org.
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moredhelfinland · Feb 8, 2023

Dual-bootin win 10 and Manjaro. My Manjaro is setup is a BTRFS filesystem, carefully partitioned for recovery. Timeshift is configured that only two snapshots are made, during boot stage and when doing major updates. So you can easily restore the system via Grub menu if something goes wrong.
I'm interested "big Btrfs improvements". Dunno what are those btrfs improvements are. I'll stay 5.15. Even my oldie but goodies Epson printer(even scanner! wow) works with it.

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