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Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 7.1.1, 7.0.13, 6.18.36, 6.12.94, 6.6.143, 6.1.176, 5.15.210, and 5.10.259 stable kernels. As usual, each contains important fixes. Users are advised to upgrade.

Version:7.1.1 (stable) Released:2026-06-19 Source:linux-7.1.1.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-7.1.1.tar.sign Patch:full ChangeLog:ChangeLog-7.1.1

Version:7.0.13 (stable) Released:2026-06-19 Source:linux-7.0.13.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-7.0.13.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-7.0.13

Version:6.18.36 (longterm) Released:2026-06-19 Source:linux-6.18.36.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.18.36.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.18.36

Version:6.12.94 (longterm) Released:2026-06-19 Source:linux-6.12.94.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.12.94.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.12.94

Version:6.6.143 (longterm) Released:2026-06-19 Source:linux-6.6.143.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.6.143.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.6.143

Version:6.1.176 (longterm) Released:2026-06-19 Source:linux-6.1.176.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-6.1.176.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-6.1.176

Version:5.15.210 (longterm) Released:2026-06-19 Source:linux-5.15.210.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.15.210.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.15.210

Version:5.10.259 (longterm) Released:2026-06-19 Source:linux-5.10.259.tar.xz PGP Signature:linux-5.10.259.tar.sign Patch:full (incremental) ChangeLog:ChangeLog-5.10.259

MidnightBSD is a FreeBSD-derived operating system. A critical goal of the project is to create an easy-to-use desktop environment with graphical ports management, and system configuration using GNUstep. The vast majority of the operating system will maintain a BSD license. MidnightBSD was forked from FreeBSD 6.1 beta.

Home Assistant OS (HAOS) is an independently-developed, Linux-based operating system optimised to run Home Assistant, an open-source home automation tool. It focuses on local control and privacy. HAOS uses Docker as its container engine and deploys Home Assistant Supervisor as a container. Home Assistant Supervisor in turn uses the Docker container engine to control Home Assistant Core and Apps in separate containers. The product is available for various single-board computers, like Raspberry Pi or ODROID, but it also supports x86-64 systems with UEFI boot mode.

The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has announced the release of its recommendations for using LLM-backed generative AI systems for FOSS contributions. The recommendations were created by the SFC and volunteers from the free-software community.

The recommendations reflect the extremely difficult dilemmas that these systems pose for FOSS contributors. SFC and its volunteers understand that FOSS developers are approaching LLM-gen-AI from a variety of perspectives. The recommendations offer practical assistance to minimize the damage caused by using proprietary systems, whether FOSS contributors reject LLM-gen-AI or choose (voluntarily or by employer mandate) to use them.

These recommendations are best practices (but not definitions or requirements) that SFC and its volunteers formulated after careful study of the growing LLM-gen-AI use among FOSS contributors. SFC will follow these recommendations with a series of supporting materials, including documents, online tutorials, public Q&As, podcasts, and other community engagement. We will routinely refine our recommendations and continue to support FOSS contributors as they navigate this difficult landscape.

SparkyLinux is a set of Debian-based desktop Linux distributions. The project provides separate editions with KDE Plasma, LXQt, MATE and Xfce desktops, as well as a lightweight flavour featuring the Openbox window manager. It offers two variants of its products - a conservative one based on Debian's "Stable" branch, and a more up-to-date one derived from Debian "Testing".

Version:next-20260618 (linux-next) Released:2026-06-18

Ultimate Edition, first released in December 2006, was a fork of Ubuntu and Linux Mint though recent versions (starting in 2024) have been based on Arch Linux. The goal of the project is to create a complete, seamlessly integrated, visually stimulating, and easy-to-install operating system. Single-button upgrade is one of several special characteristics of this distribution. Other main features include custom desktop and theme with 3D effects, support for a wide range of networking options, including WiFi and Bluetooth, and integration of many extra applications and package repositories.

The 7.2 merge window started with the 7.1 kernel release on June 14. As of this writing, just over 7,000 non-merge changesets have been pulled into the mainline for the next kernel release. Many of the core subsystems have been pulled at this point, meaning that most of the changes that can be expected in 7.2 have now come into focus.

Version 4.6 of the Mastodon fediverse platform has been released.

The headliner of this release is Collections, a way to create and share curated collections of profiles. Part of Mastodon's work ethos is our commitment to trust and safety, so we've put a lot of thought and care into the design of this feature to avoid some of the pitfalls and abuse people have experienced with similar features on other platforms, while focusing on its primary goal: Helping new users discover more of the Fediverse.

Other new features include support for subscribing to posts via email, the ability to generate a "year in review" post, accessibility improvements, and more.

How can cloud providers efficiently supply durable virtual block devices? Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) provides a way for servers in a cluster to share chunks of memory, but there still needs to be a protocol that operates on top of RDMA to provide the guarantees expected of a block device. The kernel's RDMA transport library (RTRS) provides a way to send messages via RDMA. I presented about two new components built on top of RTRS at the 2026 Linux Storage, Filesystem, Memory Management and BPF Summit: Reliable Multicast over RTRS (RMR) and Block device over RMR (BRMR). These modules, which I am working on with Jia Li, could be a way for cloud providers to expose durable block devices with as little overhead as possible. To accomplish that, however, we need some discussion and feedback from the community before sending the modules upstream.

Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (dracut, podman, postfix, rsync, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Debian (atril, firefox-esr, and nginx), Mageia (libcap, perl, and python-pillow), Oracle (firefox, gstreamer-plugins-base and gstreamer-plugins-good, httpd:2.4, kernel, libpng12, libpng15, libxml2, libxslt, opencryptoki, openssl, postfix, rsync, webkit2gtk3, xorg-x11-server, and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland), Slackware (bind, libidn, mozilla, and openssl), SUSE (alloy, docker, elemental-system-agent, glibc, grafana, helm, LibVNCServer, openssh8.4, perl-GD, perl-HTTP-Daemon, python-WebOb-doc, python311-google-adk, rustup, traefik2, wireshark, and xwayland), and Ubuntu (dolibarr, golang-go.crypto, graphite2, gst-plugins-bad1.0, kitty, libconfig-inifiles-perl, libnginx-mod-js, and webpy).

The Amnesic Incognito Live System (Tails) is a Debian-based live DVD/USB with the goal of providing complete Internet anonymity for the user. The product ships with several Internet applications, including web browser, IRC client, mail client and instant messenger, all pre-configured with security in mind and with all traffic anonymised. To achieve this, Incognito uses the Tor network to make Internet traffic very hard to trace.