"Kernel 6.18 has already been designated the new LTS release - just as we predicted - and Alpine Linux 3.23 has arrived carrying it ahead of a flurry of other year-end distro updates. It seems to be new version season in distro-land. In the last week, lots of Linux distributions have shiny new releases out: we have noted Ultramarine 43, Solus 4.8, Endeavour OS "Ganymede," 4MLinux 50, and a new CachyOS snapshot."
"A few days ago we looked at what's new in kernel 6.18, and predicted it would be the next LTS release. That's already happened. It's not listed as the new LTS on kernel.org but it's there on the releases page. In the announcement, Greg Kroah-Hartman said: Can't add it to the front page yet, needs to have 6.19 released before that can happen, otherwise it will break people's workflows that depend on the kernel release interface here."
"A new LTS version means that the oldest LTS falls off the end. Kroah-Hartman also released kernel 5.4.302, which is the last release of that version. Although this contains some 200 fixes, he also added a list of known and documented vulnerabilities to the announcement that won't be fixed: an impressive 1,539 of them. We counted. The previous LTS kernel was version 6.12, and when that was announced in December 2024, we noted that Alpine 3.21 arrived along with it."
Kernel 6.18 has been designated the new LTS release and appears on the kernel releases page though not yet on the kernel.org front page until 6.19 is released. Greg Kroah-Hartman warned that adding it to the front page now would break workflows relying on the kernel release interface. Kernel 5.4.302 was released as the final 5.4.x update, containing roughly 200 fixes and listing 1,539 documented vulnerabilities that will not be fixed. Alpine Linux 3.23.0 has been released carrying kernel 6.18 and introduces APK 3.0.0 as the new packaging tool after years of development. Multiple other distributions have recent year-end releases.
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