The 6.19 kernel has been released

Date:
Sun, 08 Feb 2026 21:33:08 +0000

Description:
Linus has released the 6.19 kernel .
" No big surprises anywhere last week, so 6.19 is out as expected - just
as the US prepares to come to a complete standstill later today
watching the latest batch of televised commercials. " The most significant changes in 6.19 include
initial support for Intel's linear
address-space separation feature,
support for Arm
Memory system resource Partitioning And Monitoring ,
the listns() system call ,
a reworked restartable-sequences
implementation ,
support for large block sizes in the ext4
filesystem,
some networking changes for improved
memory safety,
the live update orchestrator ,
and much more. See the LWN merge-window summaries ( part1 , part2 ) and the KernelNewbies 6.19 page for
details.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1057417/


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