{"id":217560,"date":"2026-02-26T05:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/longterm-supported-linux-kernels-get-a-longer-life\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T05:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T10:50:09","slug":"longterm-supported-linux-kernels-get-a-longer-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/26\/longterm-supported-linux-kernels-get-a-longer-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Longterm supported Linux kernels get a longer life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/02\/longterm-supported-linux-kernels-get-a-longer-life\/\">Longterm supported Linux kernels get a longer life<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/02\/longterm-supported-linux-kernels-get-a-longer-life\/\">https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/02\/longterm-supported-linux-kernels-get-a-longer-life\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-26 05:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.gamingonlinux.com\">www.gamingonlinux.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Linux developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced that the Longterm supported Linux kernels are going to be supported for longer than previously announced.<\/p>\n<p>In a commit to the kernel list, Kroah-Hartman mentioned:<\/p>\n<p>Based on lots of discussions with different companies and groups and the<br \/>other stable kernel maintainer, this moves to show that the current<br \/>status is:<br \/>5.10 to be supported for 6 years<br \/>5.15 to be supported for 5 years<br \/>6.6 to be supported for 4 years<br \/>6.12 to be supported for 4 years<br \/>6.18 to be supported for at least 3 years<\/p>\n<p>Going by what&#8217;s now listed on kernel.org, these are the new support dates:<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re sticking with an older version of the Linux kernel for whatever reason &#8211; you&#8217;ve got a bit longer to prepare any upgrades you&#8217;ll eventually need to do.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"hidden_message\">Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/02\/longterm-supported-linux-kernels-get-a-longer-life\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longterm supported Linux kernels get a longer life https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/2026\/02\/longterm-supported-linux-kernels-get-a-longer-life\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-26 05:29:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217561,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gamingonlinux.com\/uploads\/tagline_gallery\/defaulttagline.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-217560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217562,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217560\/revisions\/217562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}