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Line 1: {{lead missing\|date=August 2025}}{{Short description\|Version history of the Linux kernel}} {{broader\|History of Linux}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=January 2020}} Line 627: bar:6.15 color:DEV from:06/04/2025 till:24/05/2025 text:6.15.x color:SUPPORT from:25/05/2025 till:~~$now~~20/08/2025 # https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/refs/tags Line 719: <!-- Versions with data from Wikidata --> <!-- Preview (rc) version: ~~there is currently no rc version~~--> \|- \|{{Version\|cp\|{{string split\|{{wikidata\|property\|preferred\|Q14579\|P348\|P548=Q1072356}}\|"-"}}}} Line 727: \| \| ~~-->~~ \|-<!-- Latest stable version - remove the ".0" once the version becomes .1 --> \|{{Version\|c\|{{#invoke:Strip version patch\|main\|{{wikidata\|property\|preferred\|Q14579\|P348\|P548=Q2804309}}}}}} Line 739 ⟶ 738: \| {{Version\|co\|6.15}} \| 25 May 2025<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wiLRW8DN8-4jmeCZH0OpO8skXOC5e6FwMfsPwGMpQYmVQ@mail.gmail.com/\|author=Linus Torvalds\|title=Linux 6.15\|date=2025-05-25}}</ref> \| 6.15.911<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://lore.kernel.org/all/2025080157-pancreas-fleshed-73c0@gregkh/\|author=Greg Kroah-Hartman\|title=Linux 6.15.9\|date=2025-08-01}}</ref> \|20 August 2025 \| \| * Btrfs: fast Zstd compression support<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Btrfs Adding Fast/Realtime Zstd Compression & Other Performance Optimizations \|url=https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-Btrfs \|access-date=2025-07-31 \|website=www.phoronix.com \|language=en}}</ref> Line 766 ⟶ 765: \| {{Version\|co\|6.12}} \| 17 November 2024<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/CAHk-=wgtGkHshfvaAe_O2ntnFBH3EprNk1juieLmjcF2HBwBgQ@mail.gmail.com/\|author=Linus Torvalds\|title=Linux 6.12\|date=2024-11-17}}</ref> \| 6.12.4143{{r\|KERNELARCHIVES}} \| December ~~2026~~2036 \| * [[Real-time operating system\|Real-time]] support for x86/x86_64, RISC-V, and ARM64<ref name=":36">{{cite web \|title=Linux 6.12 Features Are Super Exciting With Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5 \|url=https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-612-features \|access-date=2024-11-22 \|website=www.phoronix.com \|language=en}}</ref> Line 833 ⟶ 832: \| {{Version\|co\|6.6}} \| 29 October 2023{{r\|ACTIVE}} \| 6.6.~~101~~102{{r\|KERNELARCHIVES}} \| December 2026 \| Line 914 ⟶ 913: \| {{Version\|co\|6.1}} \| {{dts\|format=dmy\|2022\|12\|11}}<ref>{{cite mailing list\|title=Linux 6.1\|url=https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wj_HcgFZNyZHTLJ7qC2613zphKDtLh6ndciwopZRfH0aQ@mail.gmail.com/\|date=11 December 2022\|mailing-list=[[LKML]]}\|last=Torvalds\|first=Linus\|author-link=Linus Torvalds}}</ref> \| 6.1.~~147~~148<ref name=KERNELARCHIVES>{{cite web\|url=https://www.kernel.org/\|title=The Linux Kernel Archives\|publisher=Kernel.org\|accessdate=22 September 2024}}</ref> \| December 2027{{r\|ACTIVE}} August 2033<ref name="CIP maintenance">{{cite web\|title=CIP maintenance\|url=https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/civilinfrastructureplatform/start#kernel_maintainership\|access-date=7 September 2023}}</ref> Line 2,453 ⟶ 2,452: \| December 2005<ref name="2.6.13.5 release" /> \| * [[initramfs]]<ref>{{Cite book \|last=Fox \|first=Richard \|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VG8LBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA450&dq=initramfs+2.6.13&hl=fr&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiZ8N2h6KiPAxW1RKQEHXUaJKkQ6AF6BAgGEAM#v=onepage&q=initramfs%202.6.13&f=false \|title=Linux with Operating System Concepts \|date=2014-08-26 \|publisher=CRC Press \|isbn=978-1-4822-3589-0 \|pages=450 \|language=en}}</ref> \| rowspan="3" \| Named Woozy [[Numbat]]<ref>{{cite web \| url = http://www.ciol.com/ciol/news/35712/woozy-numbat-released Line 2,668: * [[watchdog timer]]<ref>{{Cite web \|title=Import 1.3.51 - kernel/git/history/history.git - Linux kernel historic tree \|url=https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/history/history.git/commit/?h=1.3.51&id=85ed1260f6998849a1f82fb3e7bfd24ae3fb067f \|access-date=2024-05-23 \|website=git.kernel.org}}</ref> * Automatic [[Loadable kernel module\|modules]] loading<ref>{{Cite web \|title=What is kerneld? \|url=https://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Kerneld/introduction.html \|access-date=2024-05-23 \|website=www.linuxdoc.org}}</ref> * [[initrd]] boot support<ref>{{Cite web \|title=1. The Linux/x86 Boot Protocol — The Linux Kernel documentation \|url=https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v6.6/arch/x86/boot.html \|access-date=2025-08-26 \|website=www.kernel.org}}</ref> * [[bzImage]] support<ref>{{Cite web \|last=Rubini \|first=Alessandro \|date=June 1997 \|title=Booting the Kernel \|url=https://www.linux.it/~rubini/docs/boot/boot.html \|access-date=2025-08-26 \|website=www.linux.it}}</ref> \| Greased [[Weasel]]<ref>{{cite web \| title = Test version of new Linux kernel available