Linux Kernel 6.13 has officially reached its end of life and users are encouraged to upgrade to Linux Kernel 6.14. This transition follows the release of Kernel 6.13 on January 19, 2025, which introduced significant features such as lazy preemption support, user-space shadow stack support for AArch64, and various enhancements for Intel and AMD processors.
The announcement of 6.13’s end of life was made by Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman, who published the final release of the series, 6.13.12, and marked it as EOL on the kernel.org website. Users are urged to adopt the newer Kernel 6.14, which has already been incorporated into several popular distributions, including Arch Linux, Fedora, Alpine Linux, and Ubuntu.
Kernel 6.14 was officially released on March 24, 2025, featuring improvements such as Btrfs RAID1 read balancing support, an ntsync subsystem for better game emulation, and various enhancements aimed at better performance and compatibility with new hardware. Notably, it also supports extended permissions for SELinux.
Despite being the latest release, Kernel 6.14 is classified as a short-lived branch and will only receive updates for a limited time, likely until May 2025. For users seeking long-term stability, it is recommended to consider either Kernel 6.12 LTS or 6.6 LTS, both of which will be supported until December 2026.
For further reference, you can check the official releases of Linux Kernel 6.14 and Linux Kernel 6.13.
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