Linux Kernel 6.18 Officially Released, Could Be the Next LTS Kernel Series

Posted by hanuca on Dec 1, 2025 3:05 AM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor
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Linux kernel 6.18 is now available for download, as announced by Linus Torvalds himself, featuring enhanced hardware support through new and updated drivers, improvements to file systems and networking, and more.

Highlights of Linux 6.18 include the removal of the Bcachefs file system, support for the Rust Binder driver, a new dm-pcache device-mapper target to enable persistent memory as a cache for slower block devices, and a new microcode= command-line option to control the microcode loader’s behavior on x86 platforms.

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