Linux 6.12 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.12 Officially Promoted To Being An LTS Kernel

Linux stable maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman officially designated Linux 6.12 as this year's long-term support (LTS) kernel version...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.12-LTS-Kernel-Official

[zaps166]

Today checked the 6.12.2 - doesn't boot when sched_ext is enabled in compilation (6.12.1 worked) - early kernel panic...

But I noticed they probably fixed serious NTFS3 crash which were added in 6.12.

[hajj_3]

i guess the next lts will have 1yr of support :P

[Gamer1227]

i guess the next lts will have 1yr of support :P

and the next-next one will have 0 years of support. xD

but serious now.

The standard support have reduced from 6 years to 2, since LTS distros typically dont use LTS kernels and backport bug fixes themselves, like Ubuntu and RHEL. (Debian is a exception).

So you Had a huge cost to maintain old kernels that were not used a lot.

Now the minimum support is 2 years, but can ne extended if there is enough demand and people willing to do the work.

[zaps166]

I have a question, does anybody know why Windows VM no longer boots with "<feature policy="disable" name="hypervisor"/>" in 6.12?

[billyswong]

and the next-next one will have 0 years of support. xD

but serious now.

The standard support have reduced from 6 years to 2, since LTS distros typically dont use LTS kernels and backport bug fixes themselves, like Ubuntu and RHEL. (Debian is a exception).

So you Had a huge cost to maintain old kernels that were not used a lot.

Now the minimum support is 2 years, but can ne extended if there is enough demand and people willing to do the work.

Ubuntu did use LTS kernels before this support reduction.

Ubuntu 22.04 used kernel 5.15.
Ubuntu 20.04 used kernel 5.4.

[Franco Castillo]

"long-term" "2 years" 🤌🏼🤌🏼🤌🏼

[mrg666]

This was a huge update after almost two weeks. But it is working as expected.

[Volta]

Today checked the 6.12.2 - doesn't boot when sched_ext is enabled in compilation (6.12.1 worked) - early kernel panic...

Hartman screwed it:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/12/5/1378

Maybe "Linux" Foundation should hire more people into this? I know they have more important things like supporting woke clowns, but cmon.

Btw. I don't even have the option to enable this scheduler in kernel config.

[zaps166]

Hartman screwed it:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2024/12/5/1378

Maybe "Linux" Foundation should hire more people into this? I know they have more important things like supporting woke clowns, but cmon.

Btw. I don't even have the option to enable this scheduler in kernel config.

Ok, I see we have quick 6.12.3 release