Linux 7.1 is here to end the Intel 486 CPU era - and do some serious legacy clean up

Linux 7.1 is here to end the Intel 486 CPU era - and do some serious legacy clean up ...

Linux kernel 7.1 sends Intel 486 support to silicon heaven

More than 140,000 lines of code bite the dust as ancient CPUs, bus mice, and other legacy leftovers face the chop ...

Linux 7.1 arrives with an NTFS overhaul and major hardware performance boosts

The stable Linux 7.1 kernel release brings massive performance enhancements for upcoming Intel and AMD chips, a rewritten ...
Techzine Europe

Linux kernel 7.1 is almost ready

The development of Linux 7.1 is in its final stages. Linus Torvalds (photo) has released release candidate 7 (rc7) and ...
Research Snipers

Linux 7.1 is here: New in NTFS & CPU support, an end to old hardware

Linus Torvalds gave the starting signal for Linux 7.1. In addition to a completely new NTFS driver, the extensive kernel ...
Linux Journal

Linux Kernel 6.18 Is Out: What’s New and Important

The stable release of Linux Kernel 6.18 was officially tagged on November 30, 2025. It’s expected to become this year’s major long-term support (LTS) kernel, something many users and distributions ...
ZDNet

Linux kernel 6.11 is out - with its own BSOD

Vienna, Austria: Linus Torvalds and I are both in Vienna, which is being blasted by a storm. So, instead of looking at museums, I spent my time writing, and he spent his time releasing the Linux 6.11 ...
The Hacker News

One-Character Linux Kernel Flaw Enables Local Root Access, Exploits Now Public

CVE-2026-23111 is a Linux kernel nf_tables use-after-free that lets an unprivileged local user escalate to root and escape a ...

New CIFSwitch Linux flaw gives root on multiple distributions

A newly discovered local privilege escalation vulnerability dubbed 'CIFSwitch' in the Linux kernel could allow attackers to forge CIFS authentication key descriptions, abuse the kernel's key request ...