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2023[edit]
- 6.3 xxx 2023 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.3
- 6.2 Feb 2023 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.2
2022[edit]
- 6.1 Dec 2022 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.1
- 6.0 Oct 2022 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.0
- 5.19 Jul 2022 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.19
- Support for IPv6 packets larger than 64KB
- AMD's SEV-SNP and Intel's TDX support for more secure virtualized guests
- New LoongArch architecture
- Support for hundreds of millions of extended attributes per inode in XFS
- Support for ID mapping in overlayfs
- proactive reclaim in memory control groups added
- support for NFS Courteous Server
- support for ZSTD compressed firmware files
- Several new BPF features added
- ahci: Add a generic 'controller2' RAID id commit
- nvme-apple: Add initial Apple SoC NVMe driver
- hpe-wdt: Introduce HPE GXP Watchdog
- 5.18 May 2022 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.18
- Flexible arrays
- Intel Indirect Branch Tracking support on Intel CPUs
- Stricter memcpy() compile-time bounds checking
- User events
- Switch to C11
- 5.17 Mar 2022 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.17
- 5.16 Jan 2022 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.16
- Memory folios infrastructure for a faster memory management
- Support for AMX instructions
2021[edit]
- 5.15 Oct 2021 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.15
- New NTFS driver with read-write support
- A new process_mrelease(2) system call to let service managers release process resources faster
- Apple M1 IOMMU driver
- 5.14 Aug 2021 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.14, https://lwn.net/Articles/867706/
- Control over which processes can share a core
- 5.13 Jun 2021 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.13
- 5.12 April 2021 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.12, https://lwn.net/Articles/853289/
- ID mapping in mounts which allows to map an UID to a different one in a
mount
- Eager NFS writes
- Support for selecting the preemption model at runtime
- Low-overhead memory error detector
- netfilter packet-filtering mechanism now supports the idea of "ownership" of specific tables. This allows, for example, a firewall daemon to maintain exclusive control of the tables it manages
- LTO support in Clang
- ID mapping in mounts which allows to map an UID to a different one in a
- 5.11 Feb 2021 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.11 (Ubuntu 21.04 LTS)
2020[edit]
- 5.10 December 2020 - https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.10 (LTS)
ext4
fast commit supportvirtio-fs
performance improvements, added supports for DAX- Add support for Nitro Enclaves, a new Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) capability that allows customers to carve out isolated compute environments within EC2 instances
- 5.9 October 2020 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.9
- Support for zstd compressed kernel, ramdisk and initramfs
- NFS support for extended attributes
- 5.8 Aug 2020 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.8, Ubuntu 20.10 Groovy Gorilla
- IPv6 MPLS support
- better behavior in memory thrashing situations (
vm.swappiness
) - Dirty Pipe: CVE-2022-0847
- 5.7 May 2020 - https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.7
- Better exFAT file system implementation
- 5.6 March 2020 - https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.6
- 5.5 January 2020 - https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.5
- Block: Add
iostat
counters for flush requests (Added sysstat support in 2019/12/27 )
- Block: Add
2019[edit]
- 5.4 Nov 2019 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.4 (Ubuntu 20.04 LTS) Kernel lockdown, implemented as a Linux Security Module
virtio-fs
included
- 5.3 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.3
- 5.2 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.2
- 5.1 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.1 io_uring
- 5.0 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.0
2018[edit]
- 4.20 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.20
- 4.19 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.19
- 4.18 Aug 2018 RedHat 8 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.18
- 4.17 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.17
- 4.16 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.16
- 4.15 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.15 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
2017[edit]
- 4.14 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.14
- 4.13 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.13
- 4.12 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.12
- 4.11 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.11
- 4.10 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.10
2016[edit]
- 4.9 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.9
- 4.8 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.8
- 4.7 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.7
- 4.6 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.6
- 4.5 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.5 cgroups-v2
- 4.4 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.4
2015[edit]
- 4.3 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.3
- 4.2 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.2
- 4.1 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.1
- 4.0 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_4.0
2014[edit]
- 3.18 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.18
- 3.17 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.17
- 3.16 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.16
- 3.15 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.15
- 3.14 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.14
- 3.13 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.13 Improved performance in NUMA systems
2013[edit]
- 3.12 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.12
- 3.11 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.11
- 3.10 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.10
- April 3.9 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.9
- 3.8 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.8
2012[edit]
- 3.7 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.7 Support for ARMv8-A, TCP Fast Open
- 3.6 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.6
- 3.5 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.5
- 3.4 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_3.4
- 3.3 NVMe ?
2011[edit]
- 2.6.39 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_39
- 2.6.38 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_38
- 2.6.37 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_37
2010[edit]
- 2.6.36 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_36
- 2.6.35 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_35
- 2.6.34 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_34
- 2.6.33 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_33
2009[edit]
- 2.6.32 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_32
- 2.6.31 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_31
- 2.6.30 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_30
- 2.6.30 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_30
- 2.6.29 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_29
2008[edit]
- 2.6.28 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_28
- 2.6.27 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_27
- 2.6.26 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_26
- 2.6.25 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_25
- 2.6.24 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_24
2007[edit]
- 2.6.23 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_23 prctl, PR_SET_SECCOMP
- 2.6.22 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_22
- 2.6.21 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_21
- 2.6.20 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_20 February 2007 KVM merged
2006[edit]
- 2.6.19 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_19 Ecryptfs
- 2.6.18 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_18
- 2.6.17 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_17
- 2.6.16 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_16
- 2.6.15 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_15
2005[edit]
- 2.6.14 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_14
- 2.6.13 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_13 Inotify
- 2.6.12 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_12
- 2.6.11 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_11
2004[edit]
- 2.6.10 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_10
- 2.6.9 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_9
- 2.6.8 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_8
- 2.6.7 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_7
- 2.6.6 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_6
- 2.6.5 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_5
- 2.6.4 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_4
- 2.6.3 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_3
- 2.6.2 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_2
- 2.6.1 https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_1
2003[edit]
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