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How to Install Linux Kernel 6.18 LTS on Ubuntu 25.10 and Ubuntu 25.04

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9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor
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Linux 6.18 LTS is now the latest stable and long-term supported (LTS) kernel series, and Ubuntu users can install it on their machines via the official Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA archive. Here’s how!

Linux kernel 6.18 LTS was released on November 30th, 2025, with new features like 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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