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Category
Infrastructure and DevOps
Latest
7.3.1
Released
Oct 30, 2026
Docs outline
14 sections

Official docs outline

docs.kernel.org
  1. The Linux Kernel User's and Administrator's Guide

    Boot parameters, sysctl, module loading, and administering a running kernel.

  2. Development Process

    How kernel development, patches and releases are organized.

  3. Core API

    Core kernel data structures, memory allocation, locking primitives, and workqueues.

  4. CPU Scheduler

    CFS/EEVDF scheduling, real-time policies, and scheduling classes.

  5. Memory Management

    Virtual memory, page cache, swap, hugepages, NUMA and OOM handling.

  6. Filesystems and the VFS

    Virtual filesystem layer, inodes, dentries, and mounting.

  7. Block Layer

    Block devices, I/O schedulers, and request queues.

  8. Networking

    Network stack, sockets, netfilter, traffic control and routing.

  9. Control Groups v2

    Resource control for CPU, memory, I/O and PIDs via the cgroup hierarchy.

  10. Namespaces and Containers

    Process, network, mount and user namespaces underpinning containers.

  11. Security Subsystem

    Capabilities, LSM, SELinux/AppArmor, seccomp and credentials.

  12. BPF and Tracing

    eBPF programs, maps, verifier and kernel tracing facilities.

  13. Device Driver API

    Device model, drivers, interrupts and DMA.

  14. Locking and Concurrency

    Spinlocks, mutexes, RCU and lock debugging.

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Versions and support

6 release lines
LineReleasedLatestSupport
7.3 Oct 18, 2026 7.3.1 Supported
7.2 Aug 16, 2026 7.2.15 Ended Nov 1, 2026
7.1 Jun 14, 2026 7.1.13 Ended Sep 2, 2026
7.0 Apr 12, 2026 7.0.14 Ended Jun 27, 2026
6.19 Feb 8, 2026 6.19.14 Ended Apr 22, 2026
6.18 Nov 30, 2025 6.18.60 Until Dec 31, 2028 LTS

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