# Linux kernel version history

This article documents the version history of the Linux kernel.
Each major version – identified by the first two numbers of a release version – is designated one of the following levels of support:
* Supported until next stable version
* Long-term support (LTS); maintained for a few years
* Super-long-term support (SLTS); maintained for many more years by the Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP)

## Releases 6.x.y

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| Version | Original release date | Last release | Maintainer | EOL | Prominent features | Notes |
| class="templateVersion p swatch-future" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Future version" data-sort-value="6.14" | Future version: 6.14 | | 6.14-rc7 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | | Improved Wine speed | |
| class="templateVersion c swatch-latest" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Latest version" data-sort-value="6.13" | Latest version: 6.13 | 20 January 2025 | 6.13.7 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | | Improved controller support Copilot key support | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-maintained" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, still maintained" data-sort-value="6.12" | Old version, still maintained: 6.12 | 17 November 2024 | 6.12.19 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | | Real-time support for x86/x86_64, RISC-V, and ARM64 Userspace scheduler extensions support QR codes for DRM panic messages | 25th LTS release |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.11" | Old version, not maintained: 6.11 | 15 September 2024 | 6.11.11 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | 5 December 2024 | Atomic writes support for buffered I/O Dedicated bucket slab allocator to help protect against heap spraying vDSO implementation of getrandom | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.10" | Old version, not maintained: 6.10 | 14 July 2024 | 6.10.14 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | 10 October 2024 | Memory-allocation profiling Encrypted interactions with trusted platform modules | Named "Baby Opossum Posse" |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.9" | Old version, not maintained: 6.9 | 12 May 2024 | 6.9.10 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | 27 July 2024 | Improved performance for Intel Core Ultra (Meteor Lake) Support for AMD P-State Preferred Cores Intel FRED (Flexible Return Event Delivery) Support for larger console frame-buffer fonts for 4K displays Faster boot times for systems with lots of RAM and using HugeTLBs DM VDO (Device Mapper Virtual Data Optimizer) mainlined Hibernate LZ4 compression support |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.8" | Old version, not maintained: 6.8 | 10 March 2024 | 6.8.12 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | 30 May 2024 | | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.7" | Old version, not maintained: 6.7 | 8 January 2024 | 6.7.12 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | 3 April 2024 | Initial Bcachefs filesystem support Itanium support removed Intel Meteor Lake Graphics declared stable Initial Nouveau support for Nvidia GSP firmware Ability to disable IA-32 support at boot time on AMD64 Expansion of AMD Seamless Boot Support Improvement in loading of x86 microcode Support for RAID stripe tree, simple quota accounting, and temporary FSID added to Btrfs JFS minor stability improvements | According to Linus Torvalds, "one of the largest kernel releases we've ever had" |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-maintained" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, still maintained" data-sort-value="6.6" | Old version, still maintained: 6.6 | 29 October 2023 | 6.6.83 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | December 2026 | 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; IO_uring also seeing cool improvements 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. The one last minute change was made to the credits of ReiserFS as requested from the original developer. |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.5" | Old version, not maintained: 6.5 | 27 August 2023 | 6.5.13 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | 28 November 2023 | Initial USB4 v2.0 support MIDI 2.0 support | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.4" | Old version, not maintained: 6.4 | 25 June 2023 | 6.4.16 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | 13 September 2023 | Intel Linear Address Masking Partial support for Apple M2 Autonomous frequency and power control on AMD Zen architecture CPUs Support for RISC-V hibernation on future laptops Improvements for LoongArch CPU architecture Further Intel Meteor Lake Graphics development 4K resolution support for Rockchip Direct Rendering Manager driver Better AMDgpu support for the Steam Deck Optimizations to EROFS, Btrfs, F2FS, NTFS, and Ext4 Support for Intel Lunar Lake HD Audio Continued Wi-Fi 7 development Quality of life improvements for Apple silicon users Further Rust up-streaming to support the first Rust drivers Removal of SLOB memory allocator | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.3" | Old version, not maintained: 6.3 | 23 April 2023 | 6.3.13 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | 11 July 2023 | 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. | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.2" | Old version, not maintained: 6.2 | 19 February 2023 | 6.2.16 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | 17 May 2023 | 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@60Hz Better performance and scalability for running RAID5/6 in btrfs-like systems More Rust in the kernel | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-maintained" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, still maintained" data-sort-value="6.1" | Old version, still maintained: 6.1 | 11 December 2022 | 6.1.131 6.1.129-cip38 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | December 2026 August 2033 | Support for writing kernel modules in Rust Multi-Gen LRU page reclaiming (not yet enabled by default) Btrfs performance improvements Support for more sound hardware Improved support for game controllers | 23rd LTS release Used in Debian 12 "Bookworm" 4th SLTS release (which CIP is planning to support until August 2033) 6.1.28 is named Curry Ramen |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="6.0" | Old version, not maintained: 6.0 | 2 October 2022 | 6.0.19 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | January 2023 | Performance improvements on Intel Xeon 'Ice Lake', AMD Ryzen 'Threadripper', AMD EPYC New hardware support including Intel, AMD, Qualcomm | Named "Hurr durr I'ma [sic] ninja sloth" |
| Legend:Old version, not maintainedOld version, still maintainedLatest versionLatest preview versionFuture version |||||||

## Releases 5.x.y

| Version | Original release date | Last release | Maintainer | EOL | Prominent features | Notes |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.19" | Old version, not maintained: 5.19 | 31 July 2022 | 5.19.17 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | October 2022 | Initial support for LoongArch Support for Big TCP More secure encrypted virtualization with AMD SEV-SNP and Intel TDX Armv9 Scalable Matrix Extension support Introduce Intel In-Field Scan driver to run targeted low level diagnostics outside of the CPU's architectural error detection capabilities a.out support removed | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.18" | Old version, not maintained: 5.18 | 22 May 2022 | 5.18.19 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | August 2022 | Support for Indirect Branch Tracking on Intel CPUs User events fprobe, for probing multiple functions with a single probe handler Headers rearchitecturing preparations for faster compilation times Stricter memcpy compile-time bounds checking Switch to C11 | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.17" | Old version, not maintained: 5.17 | 20 March 2022 | 5.17.15 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | June 2022 | BPF CO-RE support Random number generator improvements New Real-Time Linux Analysis (RTLA) tool Support giving names to anonymous memory Mitigate straight-line speculation attacks | Used in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on newer hardware Named Superb Owl |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.16" | Old version, not maintained: 5.16 | 9 January 2022 | 5.16.20 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | April 2022 | New futex_waitv system call for faster game performance Memory folios infrastructure for a faster memory management Add support for AMX instructions Improve write congestion | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-maintained" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, still maintained" data-sort-value="5.15" | Old version, still maintained: 5.15 | 31 October 2021 | 5.15.179 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | December 2026 | New experimental NTFS file system implementation ksmbd, an in-kernel SMB 3 server Migrate memory pages to persistent memory in lieu of discard DAMON, a data access monitor Introduce process_mrelease(2) system call | 22nd LTS release; used in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Slackware 15, UEK 7 Named Trick or Treat |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.14" | Old version, not maintained: 5.14 | 29 August 2021 | 5.14.21 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | November 2021 | | Used in RHEL 9.x and derivatives (Redhat ignores LTS-Kernel, own kernel-backports) and SLE 15 SP4/openSUSE Leap 15.4 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.13" | Old version, not maintained: 5.13 | 27 June 2021 | 5.13.19 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | September 2021 | Support for Zstd compressed modules Landlock Linux security module | Named Opossums on Parade |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.12" | Old version, not maintained: 5.12 | 25 April 2021 | 5.12.19 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | July 2021 | | Named Frozen Wasteland |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.11" | Old version, not maintained: 5.11 | 14 February 2021 | 5.11.22 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | May 2021 | | Named "💕 Valentine's Day Edition 💕" |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-maintained" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, still maintained" data-sort-value="5.10" | Old version, still maintained: 5.10 | 13 December 2020 | 5.10.235 5.10.234-cip57 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | December 2026 January 2031 | | 21st LTS release; used in Debian 11 "Bullseye" 3rd SLTS release (which CIP is planning to support until January 2031) Named "Dare mighty things" |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.9" | Old version, not maintained: 5.9 | 11 October 2020 | 5.9.16 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | December 2020 | | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.8" | Old version, not maintained: 5.8 | 2 August 2020 | 5.8.18 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | November 2020 | | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.7" | Old version, not maintained: 5.7 | 31 May 2020 | 5.7.19 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | August 2020 | | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.6" | Old version, not maintained: 5.6 | 29 March 2020 | 5.6.19 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | June 2020 | Initial USB4 support Year 2038 fix for 32-bit systems WireGuard | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.5" | Old version, not maintained: 5.5 | 26 January 2020 | 5.5.19 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | April 2020 | | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-maintained" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, still maintained" data-sort-value="5.4" | Old version, still maintained: 5.4 | 24 November 2019 | 5.4.291 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | December 2025 | | 20th LTS release, used in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 5.4-rc2 is named Nesting Opossum 5.4-rc5 is named Kleptomaniac Octopus |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.3" | Old version, not maintained: 5.3 | 15 September 2019 | 5.3.18 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | December 2019 | | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.2" | Old version, not maintained: 5.2 | 7 July 2019 | 5.2.20 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | October 2019 | | 5.2-rc2 is named Golden Lions 5.2 is named Bobtail Squid |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.1" | Old version, not maintained: 5.1 | 5 May 2019 | 5.1.21 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | July 2019 | io_uring API, a new way to do asynchronous I/O (AIO), the older API/interface "aio" had problems and performance issues. | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="5.0" | Old version, not maintained: 5.0 | 3 March 2019 | 5.0.21 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | June 2019 | | |
| Legend:Old version, not maintainedOld version, still maintainedLatest versionLatest preview versionFuture version |||||||

## Releases 4.x.y

| Version | Original release date | Last release | Maintainer | EOL | Prominent features | Notes |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.20" | Old version, not maintained: 4.20 | 23 December 2018 | 4.20.17 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | March 2019 | | Named Shy Crocodile |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-maintained" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, still maintained" data-sort-value="4.19" | Old version, still maintained: 4.19 | 22 October 2018 | 4.19.325 4.19.325-cip118 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | December 2024 January 2029 | | 19th LTS release. Used in Debian 10 "Buster". Second SLTS release (which CIP is planning to support until January 2029), and first with ARM64 support. Named "People's Front" |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.18" | Old version, not maintained: 4.18 | 12 August 2018 | 4.18.20 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | November 2018 | | RHEL 8.x (Redhat ignores LTS-Kernel, own kernel-backports) |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.17" | Old version, not maintained: 4.17 | 3 June 2018 | 4.17.19 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | August 2018 | | Named Merciless Moray |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.16" | Old version, not maintained: 4.16 | 1 April 2018 | 4.16.18 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | June 2018 | | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.15" | Old version, not maintained: 4.15 | 28 January 2018 | 4.15.18 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | April 2018 | | Used in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.14" | Old version, not maintained: 4.14 | 12 November 2017 | 4.14.336 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | January 2024 | Zstd compression for Btrfs and Squashfs | 18th LTS release 4.14.1 is named Petit Gorille |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.13" | Old version, not maintained: 4.13 | 3 September 2017 | 4.13.16 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | November 2017 | | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.12" | Old version, not maintained: 4.12 | 2 July 2017 | 4.12.14 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | September 2017 | BFQ I/O scheduler Kyber I/O scheduler USB-C support | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.11" | Old version, not maintained: 4.11 | 30 April 2017 | 4.11.12 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | July 2017 | | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.10" | Old version, not maintained: 4.10 | 19 February 2017 | 4.10.17 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | May 2017 | | 4.10-rc5 was named Anniversary Edition 4.10-rc6 was named Fearless Coyote |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.9" | Old version, not maintained: 4.9 | 11 December 2016 | 4.9.337 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin | January 2023 | | 17th LTS release. Used in Debian 9 "Stretch". Named Roaring Lionus |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.8" | Old version, not maintained: 4.8 | 25 September 2016 | 4.8.17 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | January 2017 | | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.7" | Old version, not maintained: 4.7 | 24 July 2016 | 4.7.10 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | October 2016 | Schedutil governor Async discard support EFI bootloader control driver | Named Psychotic Stoned Sheep |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.6" | Old version, not maintained: 4.6 | 15 May 2016 | 4.6.7 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | August 2016 | | Named Charred Weasel |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.5" | Old version, not maintained: 4.5 | 13 March 2016 | 4.5.7 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | June 2016 | | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-maintained" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, still maintained" data-sort-value="4.4" | Old version, still maintained: 4.4 | 10 January 2016 | 4.4.302 4.4.302-cip97 | Greg Kroah-Hartman & Sasha Levin (until February 2022) Nobuhiro Iwamatsu & Pavel Machek | January 2027 | | 16th LTS release, used in Slackware 14.2. Canonical provided extended support until April 2021. As the first kernel selected for Super Long Term Support (SLTS), the Civil Infrastructure Platform will provide support until at least 2026. Used in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.3" | Old version, not maintained: 4.3 | 1 November 2015 | 4.3.6 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | February 2016 | | Named Blurry Fish Butt |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.2" | Old version, not maintained: 4.2 | 30 August 2015 | 4.2.8 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | December 2015 | | Canonical provided extended support until July 2016. |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.1" | Old version, not maintained: 4.1 | 22 June 2015 | 4.1.52 | Sasha Levin (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) | May 2018 | | 15th LTS release. 4.1.1 was named Series 4800 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="4.0" | Old version, not maintained: 4.0 | 12 April 2015 | 4.0.9 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | July 2015 | Initial live patching support lazytime mount option | Named "Hurr durr I'ma [sic] sheep" (Internet poll) |
| Legend:Old version, not maintainedOld version, still maintainedLatest versionLatest preview versionFuture version |||||||

## 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.
| Version | Original release date | Last release | Maintainer | EOL | Prominent features | Notes |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.19" | Old version, not maintained: 3.19 | 8 February 2015 | 3.19.8 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | May 2015 | | Canonical provided extended support until July 2016. |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.18" | Old version, not maintained: 3.18 | 7 December 2014 | 3.18.140 | Greg Kroah-Hartman (formerly Sasha Levin) (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) | January 2017 | OverlayFS eBPF DCTCP support | 14th LTS release, named Diseased Newt |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.17" | Old version, not maintained: 3.17 | 5 October 2014 | 3.17.8 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | January 2015 | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.16" | Old version, not maintained: 3.16 | 3 August 2014 | 3.16.85 | Ben Hutchings (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) | Maintained until October 2014, then May 2016 to June 2020 | | 13th LTS release. Was used in Debian 8 "Jessie". Canonical provided extended support until April 2016. 3.16.1 was named Museum of Fishiegoodies |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.15" | Old version, not maintained: 3.15 | 8 June 2014 | 3.15.10 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | August 2014 | LZ4 compression support for zram |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.14" | Old version, not maintained: 3.14 | 30 March 2014 | 3.14.79 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | August 2016 | zram support | 12th LTS release, named Shuffling Zombie Juror |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.13" | Old version, not maintained: 3.13 | 19 January 2014 | 3.13.11 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | April 2014 | | Canonical provided extended support until April 2016. Named One Giant Leap for Frogkind (NASA LADEE launch photo) Used in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.12" | Old version, not maintained: 3.12 | 3 November 2013 | 3.12.74 | Jiří Slabý (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) | May 2017 | | 11th LTS release, named Suicidal Squirrel |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.11" | Old version, not maintained: 3.11 | 2 September 2013 | 3.11.10 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | November 2013 | zswap support | Canonical provided extended support until August 2014. Named Linux for Workgroups after the 20 years of Windows 3.11 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.10" | Old version, not maintained: 3.10 | 30 June 2013 | 3.10.108 | Willy Tarreau (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) | November 2017 | bcache support | 10th LTS release, 3.10.6 was named TOSSUG Baby Fish used in Slackware 14.1 RHEL 7.x |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.9" | Old version, not maintained: 3.9 | 28 April 2013 | 3.9.11 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | July 2013 | dm-cache support suspend-freeze Intel P-state support | 3.9.6 was named Black Squirrel Wakeup Call |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.8" | Old version, not maintained: 3.8 | 18 February 2013 | 3.8.13 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | May 2013 | F2FS file system i386 support removed | Canonical provided extended support until August 2014. Named Unicycling Gorilla 3.8.5 was named Displaced Humerus Anterior |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.7" | Old version, not maintained: 3.7 | 10 December 2012 | 3.7.10 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | March 2013 | ARM64 support | Named Terrified Chipmunk |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.6" | Old version, not maintained: 3.6 | 30 September 2012 | 3.6.11 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | December 2012 | Initial support of send/receive and sub-volume quotas for Btrfs | Named Terrified Chipmunk |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.5" | Old version, not maintained: 3.5 | 21 July 2012 | 3.5.7 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | October 2012 | | Canonical provided extended support until April 2014. |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.4" | Old version, not maintained: 3.4 | 20 May 2012 | 3.4.113 | Li Zefan (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) | October 2016 | | 9th LTS release |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.3" | Old version, not maintained: 3.3 | 18 March 2012 | 3.3.8 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | June 2012 | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.2" | Old version, not maintained: 3.2 | 4 January 2012 | 3.2.102 | Ben Hutchings | May 2018 | | 8th LTS release, used in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and optionally in 12.04 ESM, Debian 7 "Wheezy" and Slackware 14.0. Canonical promised to (at least) provide long-term support until April 2017; Support has continued for months after. 3.2 to 3.5 was named Saber-toothed Squirrel |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.1" | Old version, not maintained: 3.1 | 24 October 2011 | 3.1.10 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | January 2012 | | 3.1 provided the base for real-time tree. 3.1-rc2 was named Wet Seal 3.1 was named Divemaster Edition (Linus' diving activities) |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="3.0" | Old version, not maintained: 3.0 | 21 July 2011 | 3.0.101 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | October 2013 | Btrfs: automatic defragmentation and scrubbing support | 7th LTS release Named Sneaky Weasel |
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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), before a 2011 working group in the Linux Foundation started a formal long-term support initiative.
| Version | Original release date | Last release | Maintainer | EOL | Prominent features | Notes |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.39" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.39 | 18 May 2011 | 2.6.39.4 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | August 2011 | | Last stable release of the 2.6 kernel series |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.38" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.38 | 14 March 2011 | 2.6.38.8 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | June 2011 | | Named Flesh-Eating Bats with Fangs |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.37" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.37 | 4 January 2011 | 2.6.37.6 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | March 2011 | | Named Flesh-Eating Bats with Fangs |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.36" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.36 | 20 October 2010 | 2.6.36.4 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | February 2011 | AppArmor security module | Named Flesh-Eating Bats with Fangs |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.35" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.35 | 1 August 2010 | 2.6.35.14 | Andi Kleen | March 2012 | | 6th LTS release 2.6.35.7 was named Yokohama |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.34" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.34 | 16 May 2010 | 2.6.34.15 | Paul Gortmaker | February 2014 | | 5th LTS release It was named Sheep on Meth |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.33" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.33 | 24 February 2010 | 2.6.33.20 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | November 2011 | nouveau driver | 4th LTS release. It was the base for real-time-tree, replaced by 3.0.x. |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.32" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.32 | 2 December 2009 | 2.6.32.71 | Willy Tarreau (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) | March 2016 | Kernel same-page merging (KSM) | 3rd LTS release, used in Debian 6 Squeeze. Canonical also provided support until April 2015. RHEL 6.x |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.31" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.31 | 9 September 2009 | 2.6.31.14 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | July 2010 | USB 3.0 support |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.30" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.30 | 9 June 2009 | 2.6.30.9 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | October 2009 | Tomoyo Linux security module | 2.6.30-rc4–2.6.30-rc6 was named Vindictive Armadillo Releases between 2.6 and 2.9 were named 2.Man-Eating Seals of Antiquity |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.29" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.29 | 23 March 2009 | 2.6.29.6 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | July 2009 | Btrfs support | Named Temporary Tasmanian Devil |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.28" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.28 | 24 December 2008 | 2.6.28.10 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | May 2009 | ext4 stable support | 2.6.28-rc1–2.6.28-rc6 was named Killer Bat of Doom 2.6.28 was named Erotic Pickled Herring |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.27" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.27 | 9 October 2008 | 2.6.27.62 | Willy Tarreau (formerly Adrian Bunk, and formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) | March 2012 | | 2nd LTS release 2.6.27.3 was named Trembling Tortoise |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.26" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.26 | 13 July 2008 | 2.6.26.8 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | November 2008 | | 2.6.26–2.6.27 was named Rotary Wombat |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.25" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.25 | 16 April 2008 | 2.6.25.20 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | November 2008 | Smack Linux security module | Named Funky Weasel is Jiggy wit it |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.24" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.24 | 24 January 2008 | 2.6.24.7 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | May 2008 | cgroups support | 2.6.23-rc4–2.6.23-rc6 was named Pink Farting Weasel 2.6.23-rc7–2.6.23–2.6.24 was named Arr Matey! A Hairy Bilge Rat! (TLAPD 2007) 2.6.24.1 was named Err Metey! A Heury Beelge-a Ret! |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.23" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.23 | 9 October 2007 | 2.6.23.17 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | February 2008 | CFS process scheduler | 2.6.23-rc4–2.6.23-rc6 was named Pink Farting Weasel 2.6.23-rc7–2.6.23–2.6.24 was named Arr Matey! A Hairy Bilge Rat! (TLAPD 2007) 2.6.24.1 was named Err Metey! A Heury Beelge-a Ret! |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.22" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.22 | 8 July 2007 | 2.6.22.19 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | February 2008 | New 802.11 (Wi-Fi) stack SLUB memory allocator | 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! |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.21" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.21 | 25 April 2007 | 2.6.21.7 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | August 2007 | GPIO support Dynticks | Named Nocturnal Monster Puppy |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.20" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.20 | 4 February 2007 | 2.6.20.21 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | October 2007 | Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) | Named Homicidal Dwarf Hamster |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.19" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.19 | 29 November 2006 | 2.6.19.7 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | March 2007 | AHCI support GFS2 | Named Avast! A bilge rat! (TLAPD 2006) |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.18" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.18 | 20 September 2006 | 2.6.18.8 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | February 2007 2.6.18: RHEL 5.x | NCQ and SATA hotplug support | Named Avast! A bilge rat! (TLAPD 2006) |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.17" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.17 | 17 June 2006 | 2.6.17.14 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | October 2006 | splice | 2.6.17-rc5 was named Lordi Rules (Eurovision 2006 winners) 2.6.17-rc6–2.6.17 was named Crazed Snow-Weasel |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.16" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.16 | 20 March 2006 | 2.6.16.62 | Adrian Bunk (formerly Greg Kroah-Hartman) | July 2008 | OCFS2 support SLOB memory allocator | 1st LTS release 2.6.16.28-rc2 was named Stable Penguin |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.15" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.15 | 2 January 2006 | 2.6.15.7 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | May 2006 | S.M.A.R.T. support | Named Sliding Snow Leopard |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.14" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.14 | 27 October 2005 | 2.6.14.7 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | January 2006 | FUSE support | Named Affluent Albatross |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.13" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.13 | 28 August 2005 | 2.6.13.5 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | December 2005 | | Named Woozy Numbat |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.12" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.12 | 18 June 2005 | 2.6.12.6 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | August 2005 | | Named Woozy Numbat |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.11" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.11 | 2 March 2005 | 2.6.11.12 | Greg Kroah-Hartman | June 2005 | | Named Woozy Numbat |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.10" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.10 | 24 December 2004 | | | | Switchable and modular I/O schedulers | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.9" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.9 | 19 October 2004 | | | | | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.8" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.8 | 14 August 2004 | | | | | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.7" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.7 | 16 June 2004 | | | | | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.6" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.6 | 10 May 2004 | | | | CFQ I/O scheduler Laptop mode | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.5" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.5 | 4 April 2004 | | | | Adaptive lazy readahead | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.4" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.4 | 11 March 2004 | | | | Intel x86-64 support ARMv6 support Virtual console UTF-8 mode support | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.3" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.3 | 18 February 2004 | | | | Power Mac G5 support | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.2" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.2 | 4 February 2004 | | | | RAID 6 support | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6.1" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6.1 | 9 January 2004 | | | | EFI support | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.6" | Old version, not maintained: 2.6 | 17 December 2003 | | Linus Torvalds | December 2004 | O(1) scheduler Preemption (2.5.4) Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) SELinux security module | 2.6.2–2.6.4 was named Feisty Dunnart 2.6.5–2.6.9 was named Zonked Quokka2.6.9: RHEL 4.x The 2.5 kernels were development kernels |
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## Releases before 2.6.0

| Version | Original release date | Last release | Maintainer | EOL | Prominent features | Notes |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.4" | Old version, not maintained: 2.4 | 4 January 2001 | 2.4.37.11 | Willy Tarreau (formerly Marcelo Tosatti) | December 2011 | JFS support (2.4.24) XFS support (2.4.20) ext3 support (2.4.15) ReiserFS support (2.4.1) tmpfs support GFS support Netfilter (2.3.15) | The 2.3 kernels were development kernels 2.4.9: RHEL 2.1 2.4.10: Featured a complete rewrite of the Virtual Memory Management (VMM) subsystem. 2.4.21: RHEL 3.x |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.2" | Old version, not maintained: 2.2 | 26 January 1999 | 2.2.26 | Marc-Christian Petersen (formerly Alan Cox) | Made unofficially obsolete with the 2.2.27-rc2 | USB devices support Frame-buffer console ipchains Video4Linux NTFS (readonly), FAT32 and HFS support Initial IPv6 support SPX support Loop device support Scheduling classes and scheduler SMP support SLAB memory allocator | The 2.1 kernels were development kernels |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="2.0" | Old version, not maintained: 2.0 | 9 June 1996 | 2.0.40 | David Weinehall | officially made obsolete with the kernel 2.2.0 release | Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) support | Larry Ewing created the Tux mascot in 1996 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="1.3" | Old version, not maintained: 1.3 | 12 June 1995 | 1.3.100 | Linus Torvalds | EOL | /dev/random watchdog timer Automatic modules loading | Greased Weasel |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="1.2" | Old version, not maintained: 1.2 | 7 March 1995 | 1.2.13 | Linus Torvalds | EOL | Round-robin scheduling | Linux '95 |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="1.1" | Old version, not maintained: 1.1 | 6 April 1994 | 1.1.95 | Linus Torvalds | EOL | ipfw Dual IDE interface support ATAPI CD-ROM support | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="1.0" | Old version, not maintained: 1.0 | 14 March 1994 | 1.0.9 | Linus Torvalds | EOL | Open Sound System (OSS) NTP support | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="0.99" | Old version, not maintained: 0.99 | 13 December 1992 | 0.99.15j | Linus Torvalds | EOL | Xiafs support ext2 support NFS support kmalloc | The Linux 0.99 tar.bz2 archive grew from 426 kB to 1009 kB on the way to 1.0. |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="0.98" | Old version, not maintained: 0.98 | 29 September 1992 | 0.98.6 | Linus Torvalds | EOL | TCP/IP support SCSI tape support ISO 9660 support | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="0.97" | Old version, not maintained: 0.97 | 1 August 1992 | 0.97.6 | Linus Torvalds | EOL | Initial procfs PS/2 mouse support Microsoft bus mouse support SCSI CD-ROM support | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="0.96" | Old version, not maintained: 0.96 | 22 May 1992 | 0.96c.2 | Linus Torvalds | EOL | ext support (0.96c) FAT16 support Shared libraries Logitech bus mouse support | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="0.95" | Old version, not maintained: 0.95 | 8 March 1992 | 0.95c+ | Linus Torvalds | EOL | Login prompt Initial parallel port printer support Initial reboot support | Jump from 0.12 to 0.95 First version released under the GPL |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="0.12" | Old version, not maintained: 0.12 | 15 January 1992 | | Linus Torvalds | EOL | Job control Virtual consoles pty Symbolic links Virtual memory | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="0.11" | Old version, not maintained: 0.11 | 8 December 1991 | | Linus Torvalds | EOL | Demand-loading from disk CGA, MGA and EGA support malloc | First kernel where other people start making real contributions |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="0.10" | Old version, not maintained: 0.10 | November 1991 | | Linus Torvalds | EOL | Initial floppy driver support Supports up to 16MB RAM | Jump from 0.03 to 0.10 First release where Minix isn't needed anymore |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="0.03" | Old version, not maintained: 0.03 | October 1991 | | Linus Torvalds | EOL | Multithreaded filesystem | |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="0.02" | Old version, not maintained: 0.02 | 5 October 1991 | | Linus Torvalds | EOL | US keyboard support | First "usable" release; for wider distribution |
| class="templateVersion co swatch-unsupported" style="color: var(--color-base, #202122); " title="Old version, not maintained" data-sort-value="0.01" | Old version, not maintained: 0.01 | 17 September 1991 | | Linus Torvalds | EOL | i386 support PATA support Minix support VGA text mode Hardcoded Finnish keyboard Supports up to 8MB RAM | |
| Legend:Old versionOld version, still maintainedLatest versionLatest preview versionFuture version |||||||