There was a hiccup yesterday with no Linux 6.14 release or 6.14-rc8 otherwise… Linus Torvalds has a very good track record of sticking to his Sunday release regiment. Yet yesterday was quiet. Today though Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.14 kernel as the newest stable version. Linux 6.14 is what’s set to go on and power Ubuntu 25.04, Fedora 42, and other spring 2025 Linux distribution releases.
Linux 6.14 delivers many exciting new features like the NTSYNC driver is working for emulating Windows NT synchronization primitives to enhance the Wine / Steam Play gaming performance, the AMDXDNA accelerator driver is mainlined for enabling the Ryzen AI NPUs under Linux, a lot of other AMD and Intel enhancements, continued work on the open-source graphics drivers, more Rust programming language abstractions, and more. See our Linux 6.14 feature overview to learn more about all of the changes in tow with this new kernel feature release.
Linux 6.14 can be downloaded right now via kernel.org Git.
As for the past week since the Linux 6.14-rc7 tag, one item of note is reverting a two year old patch to fix various performance regressions. The rest of the material this week was mostly the random assortment of bug/regression fixes.
Now on to the Linux 6.15 feature merge window that is looking to be quite exciting and already a number of early pull requests pending.
Update: Linus Torvalds has now posted his mailing list announcement:
“So it’s early Monday morning (well – early for me, I’m not really a morning person), and I’d love to have some good excuse for why I didn’t do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular Sunday afternoon release schedule.
I’d like to say that some important last-minute thing came up and delayed things.
But no. It’s just pure incompetence.
Because absolutely nothing last-minute happened yesterday, and I was just clearing up some unrelated things in order to be ready for the merge window. And in the process just entirely forgot to actually ever cut the release. D’oh.
So yes, a little delayed for no good reason at all, and obviously that means that the merge window has opened. No rest for the wicked (or the incompetent).”
