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Linux kernel version history

This article documents the version history of the Linux kernel, a free, open-source, and Unix-like kernel that is used on many computer systems worldwide.

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This article documents the version history of the Linux kernel, a free, open-source, and Unix-like kernel that is used on many computer systems worldwide.

Since the Linux kernel's creation by Linus Torvalds in 1991, it grew rapidly as many developers contributed to the project.

The kernel became self-hosting as of version 0.11 in December 1991. The version 1.0.0 of Linux was released in March 1994, consisting of over 170,000 lines of source code.

The most recent stable release of the Linux kernel is 7.0, released on 12 April 20261.

Explanation

In contrast to semantic versioning, the major version carries no intrinsic meaning for the kernel, as Linux promises stable interfaces and behavior even across major versions. Rather, since version 3.x, minor versions are capped around 20, to avoid the false perception that changes between large minor versions (e.g. from X.30 to X.31) would be smaller than changes between X.1 and X.2.2

Each feature release – identified by the first two numbers of a release version – is designated one of the following levels of support:

  • Supported until next stable version and 3 months after that.
  • Long-term support (LTS); maintained for a few years.3
  • Super-long-term support (SLTS); maintained for many more years by the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP).4

Overview

Releases 7.x.y

On 8 February 2026, Linus Torvalds announced that the next kernel release will be published as version 7.0.5 Following the usual release cycle of about two months for every new version, kernel 7.0 was released on 12 April 2026.6

Version Original release date Last release Maintainer EOL Prominent features Notes
Preview version: 7.1 TBA 7.1-rc57 Edit this on Wikidata Linus Torvalds
Latest version: 7.0 12 April 20261 Edit this on Wikidata 7.0.108 Edit this on Wikidata Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Releases 6.x.y

Version Original release date Last release Maintainer EOL Prominent features Notes
Unsupported: 6.19 8 February 20269 6.19.1410 Greg Kroah-Hartman 22 April 2026
Supported: 6.18 30 November 202511 6.18.3212 December 20281314
  • Improved kernel memory allocation performance with slub sheaves15
  • A device mapper target for persistent cache16
  • Process Namespaces as file handles17
  • Support for Accurate Explicit Congestion Notification in TCP18
  • Add support for PSP encryption of TCP connections1920
  • Better swapping performance212223
  • UDP receive performance improvements18
  • BPF signed programs24
  • More scalable NFS servers by removing caching18
  • Introduction of memdesc_flags_t, for a future leaner struct page2526
  • Remove bcachefs core code27
 26th LTS release28
Unsupported: 6.17 28 September 202529 6.17.1330 18 December 2025
Unsupported: 6.16 27 July 202541 6.16.1242 12 October 2025
Unsupported: 6.15 25 May 202553 6.15.1154 20 August 2025
  • Btrfs: fast Zstd compression support55
Unsupported: 6.14 24 March 202556 6.14.1128 10 June 202557
Unsupported: 6.13 20 January 202561 6.13.1262 20 April 202563
  • New handheld support
  • Intel Arc B series support
Supported: 6.12 17 November 202464 6.12.9065 December 20281314 25th LTS release28

5th SLTS with 10 years of support through 2035.68 Used in Debian 13 "Trixie"6970 and RHEL 10.071

Unsupported: 6.11 15 September 202472 6.11.1173 5 December 202473
Unsupported: 6.10 14 July 202476 6.10.1462 6.3.1362 10 October 202477 Named "Baby Opossum Posse"79 The one last minute change was made in the credits of the ReiserFS README as requested by the original developer.80
Unsupported: 6.9 12 May 202481 6.9.1062 27 July 202482
  • Improved performance for Intel Core Ultra (Meteor Lake)83
  • Support for AMD P-State Preferred Cores83
  • Intel FRED (Flexible Return Event Delivery)83
  • Support for larger console frame-buffer fonts for 4K displays83
  • Faster boot times for systems with lots of RAM and using HugeTLBs83
  • DM VDO (Device Mapper Virtual Data Optimizer) mainlined83
  • Hibernate LZ4 compression support84
Unsupported: 6.8 10 March 202485 6.8.1262 30 May 202486 Used in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS94
Unsupported: 6.7 7 January 202495 6.7.1262 3 April 2024
  • Initial Bcachefs filesystem support96
  • Itanium support removed96
  • Intel Meteor Lake Graphics declared stable96
  • Initial Nouveau support for Nvidia GSP firmware96
  • Ability to disable IA-32 support at boot time on AMD6497
  • Expansion of AMD Seamless Boot Support97
  • Improvement in loading of x86 microcode97
  • Support for RAID stripe tree, simple quota accounting, and temporary FSID added to Btrfs98
  • JFS minor stability improvements97
 According to Linus Torvalds, "one of the largest kernel releases we've ever had"96
Supported: 6.6 29 October 202399 6.6.140100 December 20271314
  • The new EEVDF process scheduler was merged. It aims to replace the CFS scheduler.
  • Intel Shadow Stack was finally merged; Exploiting ROPs is now harder
  • Support for Partial SMT
  • Performance Improvement for CPUs with a lot of cores and shared Last Level Caches
  • Continued Intel Meteor Lake graphics and sound enablement/improvements
  • Better performance for Ext4 and io_uring101
  • Security: add io_uring_disabled to shrink kernel's attack surface102
  • DEFLATE compression support for EROFS
 24th LTS release

The CFS scheduler was the de facto standard for 16+ years

ReiserFS is now declared to be obsolete and flagged for removal in 2025.

Unsupported: 6.5 27 August 2023103 6.5.1362 28 November 2023104
Unsupported: 6.4 25 June 2023106 6.4.1662 13 September 2023107
Unsupported: 6.3 23 April 2023111 6.3.1362 11 July 2023112
  • Even more Rust in the kernel
  • Initial Support for Intel Meteor Lake Display
  • Intel Meteor Lake VPUs ("Versatile Processing Unit") support
  • AMD Automatic IBRS
  • Intel TPMI driver was merged, hopes are this will give more control over power management.
  • Big Performance Improvement for EXT4. Nice Improvements for BTRFS too
  • IPv4 BIG TCP support, maybe better network performance
  • Microsoft Hyper-V nested hypervisor support.
  • Faster kernel builds and with lower peak memory use.
  • Removed support for the Intel ICC compiler.
Unsupported: 6.2 19 February 2023113 6.2.1662 17 May 2023114
  • Intel Arc drivers are now deemed "stable" and on by default.
  • Initial FOSS support for NVIDIA GeForce 30 Series. But performance is poor for now.
  • Support for Apple's M1
  • Call Depth Tracking as a better performance alternative to IBRS for older Intel CPUs
  • Some Power-savings improvements when the system is idle or lightly loaded.
  • Support for running Raspberry Pi in 4K@60 Hz
  • Better performance and scalability for running RAID5/6 in btrfs-like systems
  • More Rust in the kernel
Supported: 6.1 11 December 2022115 6.1.17362 December 20273

August 2033116

23rd LTS release
Used in Debian 12 "Bookworm"121

4th SLTS release (which CIP122 is planning116 to support until August 2033)

6.1.28 is named Curry Ramen123

Unsupported: 6.0 2 October 2022124 6.0.19125 January 2023125
  • Performance improvements on Intel Xeon 'Ice Lake', AMD Ryzen 'Threadripper', AMD EPYC126
  • New hardware support including Intel, AMD, Qualcomm127
 Named "Hurr durr I'ma [sic] ninja sloth"128
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Releases 5.x.y

Version Original release date Last release Maintainer EOL Prominent features Notes
Unsupported: 5.19 31 July 2022129 5.19.17130 Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin3 October 2022130
  • Initial support for LoongArch131132
  • Support for Big TCP131132
  • More secure encrypted virtualization with AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX131132
  • Armv9 Scalable Matrix Extension support132
  • Introduce Intel In-Field Scan driver to run targeted low level diagnostics outside of the CPU's architectural error detection capabilities131
  • a.out support removed133
Unsupported: 5.18 22 May 2022134 5.18.19135 August 2022135
  • Support for Indirect Branch Tracking136 on Intel CPUs137
  • User events138
  • fprobe, for probing multiple functions with a single probe handler139
  • Headers rearchitecturing preparations for faster compilation times140
  • Stricter memcpy() compile-time bounds checking141
  • Switch to C11142
Unsupported: 5.17 20 March 2022143 5.17.15144 June 2022144
  • BPF CO-RE support145146
  • Random number generator improvements147
  • New Real-Time Linux Analysis (RTLA) tool148
  • Support giving names to anonymous memory149
  • Mitigate straight-line speculation attacks150
 Used in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on newer hardware151

Named Superb Owl152

Unsupported: 5.16 9 January 2022153 5.16.20154 April 2022154
  • New futex_waitv() system call for faster game performance155
  • Memory folios infrastructure for a faster memory management156
  • Add support for AMX instructions157
  • Improve write congestion158
Supported: 5.15 31 October 2021159 5.15.20762 December 20263
  • New experimental160 NTFS file system implementation
  • ksmbd, an in-kernel SMB 3 server
  • Migrate memory pages to persistent memory in lieu of discard161
  • DAMON, a data access monitor
  • Introduce process_mrelease(2) system call162
 22nd LTS release; used in

Named Trick or Treat165

Unsupported: 5.14 29 August 2021166 5.14.21167 Greg Kroah-Hartman November 2021167 Used in RHEL 9.x and derivatives168 (Red Hat ignores LTS-Kernel, own kernel-backports) and SLE 15 SP4/openSUSE Leap 15.4
Unsupported: 5.13 27 June 2021169 5.13.19170 Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin September 2021170 Named Opossums on Parade
Unsupported: 5.12 25 April 2021173 5.12.19174 Greg Kroah-Hartman July 2021174 Named Frozen Wasteland175176
Unsupported: 5.11 14 February 2021177 5.11.22178 May 2021178 Named "💕 Valentine's Day Edition 💕"179
Supported: 5.10 13 December 2020180 5.10.25662 Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin3 December 20263181

January 2031116

  • Support for ARM64 memory tagging extension (MTE)182
 21st LTS release; used in Debian 11 "Bullseye"183

3rd SLTS release (which CIP184 is planning116 to support until January 2031)

Named "Dare mighty things"185

Unsupported: 5.9 11 October 2020186 5.9.16187 Greg Kroah-Hartman December 2020187
Unsupported: 5.8 2 August 2020188 5.8.18189 November 2020189
Unsupported: 5.7 31 May 2020190 5.7.19191 August 2020191
Unsupported: 5.6 29 March 2020192 5.6.19193 June 2020193
Unsupported: 5.5 26 January 2020195 5.5.19196 April 2020196
Unsupported: 5.4 24 November 2019197 5.4.30262 Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin3 December 20253 20th LTS release, used in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
5.4-rc2 is named Nesting Opossum198

5.4-rc5 is named Kleptomaniac Octopus199

Unsupported: 5.3 15 September 2019200 5.3.18201 Greg Kroah-Hartman December 2019201
Unsupported: 5.2 7 July 2019202 5.2.20203 October 2019203 5.2-rc2 is named Golden Lions204205

5.2 is named Bobtail Squid206

Unsupported: 5.1 5 May 2019207 5.1.21208 July 2019208
Unsupported: 5.0 3 March 2019210 5.0.21211 June 2019211
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Releases 4.x.y

Version Original release date Last release Maintainer EOL Prominent features Notes
Unsupported: 4.20 23 December 2018212 4.20.17213 Greg Kroah-Hartman March 2019213 Named Shy Crocodile214
Supported: 4.19 22 October 2018215 4.19.32562

4.19.325-cip124216

Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin3

Ulrich Hecht & Pavel Machek116

December 20243217

January 2029116

19th LTS release. Used in Debian 10 "Buster".218 Second SLTS release (which CIP is planning116 to support until January 2029).219 Named "People's Front"220
Unsupported: 4.18 12 August 2018221 4.18.20222 Greg Kroah-Hartman November 2018222 RHEL 8.x (Red Hat ignores LTS-Kernel, own kernel-backports)
Unsupported: 4.17 3 June 2018223 4.17.19224 August 2018224 Named Merciless Moray225
Unsupported: 4.16 1 April 2018226 4.16.18227 June 2018227
Unsupported: 4.15 28 January 2018228 4.15.18229 April 2018229 Used in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Unsupported: 4.14 12 November 2017230 4.14.336231 Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin3 January 2024231
  • Zstd compression for Btrfs and Squashfs232
 18th LTS release

4.14.1 is named Petit Gorille233

Unsupported: 4.13 3 September 2017234 4.13.16235 Greg Kroah-Hartman November 2017235
Unsupported: 4.12 2 July 2017236 4.12.14237 September 2017237
Unsupported: 4.11 30 April 2017239 4.11.12240 July 2017240
Unsupported: 4.10 19 February 2017241 4.10.17242 May 2017242 4.10-rc5 was named Anniversary Edition243

4.10-rc6 was named Fearless Coyote244

Unsupported: 4.9 11 December 2016245 4.9.33762 Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin3 January 20233246 17th LTS release. Used in Debian 9 "Stretch".247 Named Roaring Lionus248249
Unsupported: 4.8 25 September 2016250 4.8.17251 Greg Kroah-Hartman January 2017251
Unsupported: 4.7 24 July 2016252 4.7.10253 October 2016253 Named Psychotic Stoned Sheep257
Unsupported: 4.6 15 May 2016258 4.6.7259 August 2016259 Named Charred Weasel260
Unsupported: 4.5 13 March 2016261 4.5.7262 June 2016263
Supported: 4.4 10 January 2016264 4.4.302265

4.4.302-cip103216

Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin3

Ulrich Hecht & Pavel Machek116

February 2022265

January 2027116

16th LTS release, used in Slackware 14.2.266 Canonical provided extended support until April 2021.267 As the first kernel selected for Super Long Term Support (SLTS), the Civil Infrastructure Platform will provide support until at least 2026.4 Used in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Unsupported: 4.3 1 November 2015268 4.3.6269 Greg Kroah-Hartman February 2016270 Named Blurry Fish Butt271272
Unsupported: 4.2 30 August 2015273 4.2.8274 December 2015274 Canonical provided extended support until July 2016.275276
Unsupported: 4.1 22 June 2015277 4.1.52278 Sasha Levin3279 (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman)280 May 2018278 15th LTS release. 4.1.1 was named Series 4800281
Unsupported: 4.0 12 April 2015282 4.0.9283 Greg Kroah-Hartman July 2015284 Named "Hurr durr I'ma [sic] sheep"286 (Internet poll)
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Releases 3.x.y

The jump from 2.6.x to 3.x wasn't because of a breaking update, but rather the first release of a new versioning scheme introduced as a more convenient system.287

Version Original release date Last release Maintainer EOL Prominent features Notes
Unsupported: 3.19 8 February 2015288 3.19.8289 Greg Kroah-Hartman May 2015289 Canonical provided extended support until July 2016.275290
Unsupported: 3.18 7 December 2014291 3.18.140292 Greg Kroah-Hartman293 (formerly Sasha Levin294) (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) January 2017295 14th LTS release, named Diseased Newt298
Unsupported: 3.17 5 October 2014299 3.17.8300 Greg Kroah-Hartman January 2015300
Unsupported: 3.16 3 August 2014301 3.16.85302 Ben Hutchings3303 (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) Maintained until October 2014, then May 2016 to June 20203023304 13th LTS release. Was used in Debian 8 "Jessie".305 Canonical provided extended support until April 2016.275306

3.16.1 was named Museum of Fishiegoodies307

Unsupported: 3.15 8 June 2014308 3.15.10309 Greg Kroah-Hartman August 2014309
  • LZ4 compression support for zram310
Unsupported: 3.14 30 March 2014311 3.14.79312 Greg Kroah-Hartman3 August 2016312 12th LTS release, named Shuffling Zombie Juror314
Unsupported: 3.13 19 January 2014315 3.13.11316 Greg Kroah-Hartman April 2014316 Canonical provided extended support until April 2016.275317 Named One Giant Leap for Frogkind318 (NASA LADEE launch photo)319 Used in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Unsupported: 3.12 3 November 2013320 3.12.74321 Jiří Slabý3322 (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) May 2017322321 11th LTS release, named Suicidal Squirrel323
Unsupported: 3.11 2 September 2013324 3.11.10325 Greg Kroah-Hartman November 2013325 Canonical provided extended support until August 2014.275 Named Linux for Workgroups after the 20 years of Windows 3.11327
Unsupported: 3.10 30 June 2013328 3.10.108329 Willy Tarreau3330 (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) November 2017329 10th LTS release,
3.10.6 was named TOSSUG Baby Fish332333334 used in Slackware 14.1335

RHEL 7.x

Unsupported: 3.9 28 April 2013336 3.9.11337 Greg Kroah-Hartman July 2013337 3.9.6 was named Black Squirrel Wakeup Call341
Unsupported: 3.8 18 February 2013342 3.8.13343 Greg Kroah-Hartman May 2013343 Canonical provided extended support until August 2014.275346

Named Unicycling Gorilla347348
3.8.5 was named Displaced Humerus Anterior349

Unsupported: 3.7 10 December 2012350 3.7.10351 Greg Kroah-Hartman March 2013351352 Named Terrified Chipmunk354355
Unsupported: 3.6 30 September 2012356 3.6.11357 Greg Kroah-Hartman December 2012357
  • Initial support of send/receive and sub-volume quotas for Btrfs358
Unsupported: 3.5 21 July 2012359 3.5.7360 Greg Kroah-Hartman October 2012360 Canonical provided extended support until April 2014.275361
Unsupported: 3.4 20 May 2012362363 3.4.113364 Li Zefan3365 (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) October 2016366 9th LTS release
Unsupported: 3.3 18 March 2012367 3.3.8368 Greg Kroah-Hartman June 2012368
Unsupported: 3.2 4 January 2012369 3.2.102370 Ben Hutchings3371 May 2018372 8th LTS release, used in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS373 and optionally in 12.04 ESM,374 Debian 7 "Wheezy" and Slackware 14.0.3371 Canonical promised to (at least) provide long-term support until April 2017;275 Support has continued for months after.

3.2 to 3.5 was named Saber-toothed Squirrel375

Unsupported: 3.1 24 October 2011376 3.1.10377 Greg Kroah-Hartman January 2012377 3.1 provided the base for real-time tree.
3.1-rc2 was named Wet Seal
3.1 was named Divemaster Edition378 (Linus' diving activities)
Unsupported: 3.0 21 July 2011287 3.0.101379 Greg Kroah-Hartman380 October 2013379380 7th LTS release
Named Sneaky Weasel382383
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Releases 2.6.x.y

Versions 2.6.16 and 2.6.27 of the Linux kernel were unofficially given long-term support (LTS),384 before a 2011 working group in the Linux Foundation started a formal long-term support initiative.385386

Version Original release date Last release Maintainer EOL Prominent features Notes
Unsupported: 2.6.39 18 May 2011387 2.6.39.4388 Greg Kroah-Hartman August 2011388 Last stable release of the 2.6 kernel series
Unsupported: 2.6.38 14 March 2011389 2.6.38.8390 June 2011390 Named Flesh-Eating Bats with Fangs391
Unsupported: 2.6.37 4 January 2011392 2.6.37.6393 March 2011393
Unsupported: 2.6.36 20 October 2010394 2.6.36.4395 February 2011395
Unsupported: 2.6.35 1 August 2010397 2.6.35.14398 Andi Kleen399 March 2012399 6th LTS release
2.6.35.7 was named Yokohama
Unsupported: 2.6.34 16 May 2010400 2.6.34.15401 Paul Gortmaker402 February 2014401402 5th LTS release
It was named Sheep on Meth403404
Unsupported: 2.6.33 24 February 2010405 2.6.33.20406 Greg Kroah-Hartman407 November 2011406 4th LTS release. It was the base for real-time-tree, replaced by 3.0.x.407
Unsupported: 2.6.32 2 December 2009409 2.6.32.71410 Willy Tarreau3411 (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman)412413 March 20163 3rd LTS release, used in Debian 6 Squeeze.415 Canonical also provided support until April 2015.275

RHEL 6.x

Unsupported: 2.6.31 9 September 2009416 2.6.31.14417 Greg Kroah-Hartman July 2010417
Unsupported: 2.6.30 9 June 2009419 2.6.30.9420 October 2009420 2.6.30-rc4–2.6.30-rc6 was named

Vindictive Armadillo422423
Releases between 2.6 and 2.9 were named 2.Man-Eating Seals of Antiquity424

Unsupported: 2.6.29 23 March 2009425 2.6.29.6426 July 2009426 Named Temporary Tasmanian Devil428429
Unsupported: 2.6.28 24 December 2008430 2.6.28.10431 May 2009431 2.6.28-rc1–2.6.28-rc6 was named Killer Bat of Doom433434

2.6.28 was named Erotic Pickled Herring435

Unsupported: 2.6.27 9 October 2008436 2.6.27.62437 Willy Tarreau438 (formerly Adrian Bunk,439 and formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) March 2012439 2nd LTS release
2.6.27.3 was named Trembling Tortoise440
Unsupported: 2.6.26 13 July 2008441 2.6.26.8442 Greg Kroah-Hartman November 2008442 2.6.26–2.6.27 was named Rotary Wombat443
Unsupported: 2.6.25 16 April 2008444 2.6.25.20445 November 2008445 Named Funky Weasel is Jiggy wit it447
Unsupported: 2.6.24 24 January 2008448 2.6.24.7449 May 2008449 2.6.23-rc4–2.6.23-rc6 was named Pink Farting Weasel451

2.6.23-rc7–2.6.23–2.6.24 was named Arr Matey! A Hairy Bilge Rat!452 (TLAPD 2007)
2.6.24.1 was named Err Metey! A Heury Beelge-a Ret!453

Unsupported: 2.6.23 9 October 2007454 2.6.23.17455 February 2008455
Unsupported: 2.6.22 8 July 2007457 2.6.22.19458 February 2008458 2.6.22-rc3–2.6.22-rc4 was named Jeff Thinks I Should Change This, But To What?

2.6.22-rc5–2.6.22 was named Holy Dancing Manatees, Batman!460

Unsupported: 2.6.21 25 April 2007461 2.6.21.7462 August 2007462 Named Nocturnal Monster Puppy464
Unsupported: 2.6.20 4 February 2007465 2.6.20.21466 October 2007466 Named Homicidal Dwarf Hamster468469
Unsupported: 2.6.19 29 November 2006470 2.6.19.7471 March 2007471 Named Avast! A bilge rat! (TLAPD 2006)475
Unsupported: 2.6.18 20 September 2006476 2.6.18.8477 February 2007477

2.6.18: RHEL 5.x

Unsupported: 2.6.17 17 June 2006479 2.6.17.14480 October 2006480 2.6.17-rc5 was named Lordi Rules482 (Eurovision 2006 winners)483

2.6.17-rc6–2.6.17 was named Crazed Snow-Weasel484

Unsupported: 2.6.16 20 March 2006485 2.6.16.62486 Adrian Bunk487 (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman)412 July 2008488486 1st LTS release
2.6.16.28-rc2 was named Stable Penguin
Unsupported: 2.6.15 2 January 2006490 2.6.15.7491 Greg Kroah-Hartman May 2006491 Named Sliding Snow Leopard493
Unsupported: 2.6.14 27 October 2005494 2.6.14.7495 January 2006495 Named Affluent Albatross497
Unsupported: 2.6.13 28 August 2005498 2.6.13.5499 December 2005499 Named Woozy Numbat501502 The 2.6.12 release was the first one managed by Git.503
Unsupported: 2.6.12 18 June 2005504 2.6.12.6505506 August 2005505
Unsupported: 2.6.11 2 March 2005507 2.6.11.12508 June 2005508
Unsupported: 2.6.10 24 December 2004509
  • Switchable and modular I/O schedulers510
Unsupported: 2.6.9 19 October 2004511
Unsupported: 2.6.8 14 August 2004512
Unsupported: 2.6.7 16 June 2004513
Unsupported: 2.6.6 10 May 2004514
Unsupported: 2.6.5 4 April 2004516
Unsupported: 2.6.4 11 March 2004518
Unsupported: 2.6.3 18 February 2004520
Unsupported: 2.6.2 4 February 2004522
Unsupported: 2.6.1 9 January 2004524
Unsupported: 2.6 17 December 2003526 Linus Torvalds December 2004527 2.6.2–2.6.4 was named Feisty Dunnart531
2.6.5–2.6.9 was named Zonked Quokka532 2.6.9: RHEL 4.x

The 2.5 kernels were development kernels533

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Version Original release date Last release Maintainer EOL Prominent features Notes
Unsupported: 2.4 4 January 2001534 2.4.37.11535 Willy Tarreau (formerly Marcelo Tosatti) December 2011535

The 2.3 kernels were development kernels533
2.4.9: RHEL 2.1
2.4.10: Featured a complete rewrite of the Virtual Memory Management (VMM) subsystem.540
2.4.21: RHEL 3.x

Unsupported: 2.2 26 January 1999541 2.2.26542 Marc-Christian Petersen (formerly Alan Cox)543 Made unofficially obsolete with the 2.2.27-rc2544545 The 2.1 kernels were development kernels533
Unsupported: 2.0 9 June 1996550 2.0.40551 David Weinehall officially made obsolete with the kernel 2.2.0 release552 Larry Ewing created the Tux mascot in 1996
Unsupported: 1.3 12 June 1995 1.3.100554 Linus Torvalds EOL Greased Weasel560
Unsupported: 1.2 7 March 1995 1.2.13 Linux '95561
Unsupported: 1.1 6 April 1994 1.1.95
Unsupported: 1.0 14 March 1994 1.0.9
Unsupported: 0.99 13 December 1992 0.99.15j565 The Linux 0.99 tar.bz2 archive grew from 426 kB to 1009 kB on the way to 1.0.
Unsupported: 0.98 29 September 1992 0.98.6568
Unsupported: 0.97 1 August 1992 0.97.6570
Unsupported: 0.96 22 May 1992 0.96c.2574
Unsupported: 0.95 8 March 1992 0.95c+576 Jump from 0.12 to 0.95579

First version released under the GPL.578580 Although the license change took effect as of the first of February 1992.

Unsupported: 0.12 15 January 1992
Unsupported: 0.11 8 December 1991 First kernel where other people start making real contributions581
Unsupported: 0.10 November 1991 Jump from 0.03 to 0.10

First release where Minix isn't needed anymore583

Unsupported: 0.03 October 1991583
Unsupported: 0.02 5 October 1991
  • US keyboard support583
 First "usable" release; for wider distribution584
Unsupported: 0.01 17 September 1991
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