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Linux 6.17 Successfully Lands In Ubuntu 25.10
Back in May was the announcement by Canonical's kernel team that they were planning to ship Linux 6.17 in Ubuntu 25.10 as what will be the latest upstream kernel version when that Ubuntu release ships in October
Back in May was the announcement by Canonical's kernel team that they were planning to ship Linux 6.17 in Ubuntu 25.10 as what will be the latest upstream kernel version when that Ubuntu release ships in October. Well, the situation is more clear with Linux 6.17 having been merged now as the default kernel of Ubuntu 25.10. While Linux 6.17 stable won't be out until late September, there is already a Linux 6.17 snapshot that was merged to the Ubuntu 25.10 archive and the default kernel - including for new Ubuntu 25.10 daily ISOs in the past few days.
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