Linux Kernel 6.18 Released, Designated 2025's LTS
By BIOS Founding Team
The final kernel of 2025 shipped with support for the Rust Binder driver, a new dm-pcache device-mapper target enabling persistent memory as a cache layer, and removal of the Bcachefs filesystem from the tree.
It was designated the year's Long Term Support release, guaranteed maintenance until December 2027.
Full details: https://9to5linux.com/its-official-linux-kernel-6-18-will-be-lts-supported-until-december-2027
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