Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.19 Release Candidate

Posted by hanuca on Dec 15, 2025 5:18 AM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor
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Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability for public testing of the first Release Candidate (RC) development milestone of the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel series.

Today marks two weeks since the release of Linux kernel 6.18, which (as expected) will be an LTS branch supported for at least two years, until December 2027, and the merge window for Linux kernel 6.19 was opened, which means that it is time to test drive the Release Candidate (RC) versions during the next couple of months.

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