Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.14-rc6 a few minutes ago as we work toward the stable Linux 6.14 kernel release later in March.
Linus Torvalds wrote of 6.14-rc6 in the release announcement:
“This release remains on track, nothing special to report. The biggest patch here is for the AMD microcode signing snafu, other than that it all looks entirely regular with small fixes spread fairly normally across the board.”
If all goes well Linux 6.14 stable will be out in two weeks on 23 March.
There was a fix for AMD CPU microcode update handling with some missing hashes, the Intel VSEC driver preparing for Diamond Rapids, and Panther Lake support added to the intel_th and MEI drivers with just needing new device IDs. The rest of the Linux 6.14-rc6 changes were more of just the usual bug/regression fixing code churn.
See our Linux 6.14 feature overview for more details on the exciting changes to find with this kernel that will be powering Ubuntu 25.04, Fedora 42, and other spring 2025 Linux distributions.
