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📄 Article Active kernel releases
25/02/2026 18:15

There are several main categories into which kernel releases may fall: Prepatch Prepatch or "RC" kernels are mainline kernel pre-releases that are mostly aimed at other kernel developers and Linux enthusiasts. They must be compiled from source and usually contain new features that must be tested bef…

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📄 Article The Linux Kernel Organization
06/08/2024 19:40

The Linux Kernel Organization is a California Public Benefit Corporation established in 2002 to distribute the Linux kernel and other Open Source software to the public without charge. We are recognized by the IRS as a 501(c)3 private operating foundation. IRS determination letter California determi…

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📄 Article About Linux Kernel
06/08/2024 19:40

What is Linux? Linux is a clone of the operating system Unix, written from scratch by Linus Torvalds with assistance from a loosely-knit team of hackers across the Net. It aims towards POSIX and Single UNIX Specification compliance. It has all the features you would expect in a modern fully-fledged …

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📄 Article Frequently asked questions
06/08/2024 19:40

If you have questions, comments or concerns about the F.A.Q. please contact us at helpdesk@kernel.org. Is Linux Kernel Free Software? Linux kernel is released under the terms of GNU GPL version 2 and is therefore Free Software as defined by the Free Software Foundation. For more …

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📄 Article Contacts
06/08/2024 19:40

Email is the only reliable way of contacting Kernel.org administrators. General contacts helpdesk@kernel.org: All questions about kernel.org infrastructure. Please do not send general Linux questions or bug reports to these addresses. We do not have the resources to reply to them. Please try the fol…

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📄 Article Linux.dev mailing list service
06/08/2024 19:40

We are pleased to announce the availability of a new mailing list service running under the new lists.linux.dev domain. The goal of this deployment is to offer a subscription service that: prioritizes mail delivery to public-inbox archives available via lore.kernel.org conforms to DMARC requirements…

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📄 Article Git mirror available in Beijing
06/08/2024 19:40

If you are a developer located around Beijing, or if your connection to Beijing is faster and more reliable than to locations outside of China, then you may benefit from the new git.kernel.org mirror kindly provided by Code Aurora Forum at https://kernel.source.codeaurora.cn/. This is …

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📄 Article Code of Conduct
27/06/2026 10:12

The Linux kernel community operates a Code of Conduct based on the Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct with a Linux Kernel Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct Interpretation. Code of Conduct Committee The Linux kernel Code of Conduct Committee is currently made up of the following people: Kristen …

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📄 Article Get notifications for your patches
06/08/2024 19:40

We are trialing out a new feature that can send you a notification when the patches you send to the LKML are applied to linux-next or to the mainline git trees. If you are interested in trying it out, here are the details: The patches must be sent to the …

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📄 Article List archives on lore.kernel.org
06/08/2025 04:14

You may access the archives of many Linux development mailing lists on lore.kernel.org. Most of them include a full archive of messages going back several decades. listing of currently hosted archives If you would like to suggest another kernel development mailing list to be included in this list …

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📄 Article Minor changes to kernel tarball releases
06/08/2024 19:40

We'd like to announce several small changes to the way Linux tarballs are produced. Mainline release tarball signatures Starting with the 4.18 final release, all mainline tarball PGP signatures will be made by Greg Kroah-Hartman instead of Linus Torvalds. The main goal behind this change is to simpl…

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📄 Article Best way to do linux clones for your CI
06/08/2024 19:40

If you are in charge of CI infrastructure that needs to perform frequent full clones of kernel trees from git.kernel.org, we strongly recommend that you use the git bundles we provide instead of performing a full clone directly from git repositories. It is better for you, because downloading …

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📄 Article Nitrokey digital tokens for kernel developers
06/08/2024 19:40

The Linux Foundation IT team has been working to improve the code integrity of git repositories hosted at kernel.org by promoting the use of PGP-signed git tags and commits. Doing so allows anyone to easily verify that git repositories have not been altered or tampered with no matter from …

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📄 Article Linux kernel releases PGP signatures
06/08/2024 19:40

All kernel releases are cryptographically signed using OpenPGP-compliant signatures. Everyone is strongly encouraged to verify the integrity of downloaded kernel releases by verifying the corresponding signatures. Basic concepts Every kernel release comes with a cryptographic signature from the pers…

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📄 Article RC tarballs and patches starting with 4.12-rc1
06/08/2024 19:40

As you may be aware, starting with 4.12-rc1 Linus will no longer provide signed tarballs and patches for pre-release ("-rc") kernels. Reasons for this are multiple, but largely this is because people who are most interested in pre-release tags -- kernel developers -- do not rely on patches and tarba…

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📄 Article If you got "BAD Signature" this morning
06/08/2024 19:40

The XZ tarballs for the following kernel releases did not initially pass signature verification due to benign changes to the tarball structure done by the pixz compression tool: 4.11.1 4.10.16 4.9.28 4.4.68 These changes would have resulted in GPG returning "Bad Signature …

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📄 Article Fast new frontends with Packet
06/08/2024 19:40

We are extremely happy to announce that Packet has graciously donated the new hardware systems providing read-only public access to the kernel.org git repositories and the public website (git.kernel.org and www.kernel.org, respectively). We have avoided using cloud providers in the past due to secur…

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📄 Article Shutting down FTP services
06/08/2024 19:40

Those of you who have been around for a while may remember a time when you used to be able to mount kernel.org directly as a partition on your system using NFS (or even SMB/CIFS). The Wayback Machine shows that this was still advertised some time in January …

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📄 Article Gandi.net TLS certificates
06/08/2024 19:40

If your browser alerted you that the site certificates have changed, that would be because we replaced our StartCOM, Ltd certificates with those offered by our DNS registrar, Gandi. We are very thankful to Gandi for this opportunity. A common question is why we aren't using the certificates offered …

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📄 Article Cloning Linux from a bundle
06/08/2024 19:40

If you find yourself on an unreliable Internet connection and need to perform a fresh clone of Linux.git, you may find it tricky to do so if your connection resets before you are able to complete the clone. There is currently no way to resume a git clone using …

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📄 Article Introducing Fastly CDN
06/08/2024 19:40

We are happy to announce that Fastly has offered their worldwide CDN network to provide fast download services for Linux kernel releases, which should improve download speeds for those of you located outside North America. We have modified the front page to offer CDN-powered download links, but all …

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📄 Article Hurr, Durr Im'a Sheep
06/08/2024 19:40

Linus named the upcoming 4.0 release of the kernel "Hurr Durr I'ma Sheep" (see his git commit), so we are celebrating this April Fool's day with a minor prank. If you've been redirected to imasheep.hurrdurr.org, do not panic. It's all part of the joke. We've also restored …

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📄 Article FTP limited on mirrors.kernel.org
06/08/2024 19:40

We've had to temporarily limit FTP access to mirrors.kernel.org due to high IO load. We have recently upgraded our hardware in order to increase capacity -- 16TB was no longer nearly sufficient enough to host all the distro mirrors and archives. We chose larger but slower disks and offset …

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📄 Article Heartbleed statement
06/08/2024 19:40

Since we rely on the OpenSSL library for serving most of our websites, we, together with most of the rest of the open-source world, were vulnerable to the HeartBleed vulnerability. We have switched to the patched version of OpenSSL within hours of it becoming available, plus have performed the follo…

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📄 Article Happy new year and good-bye bzip2
06/08/2024 19:40

Good-bye bzip2 We started listing xz-compressed versions of kernel archives in all our announcements back in March 2013, and the time has come to complete the switch. Effective immediately, we will no longer be providing bzip2-compressed versions for new releases of the Linux kernel and other softwa…

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📄 Article New frontend and googlesource.com
06/08/2024 19:40

Montreal frontend We have added another official frontend for serving the kernel content, courtesy of Vexxhost, Inc. There is now a total of three frontends, one in Palo Alto, California, one in Portland, Oregon, and one in Montreal, Quebec. This should allow for better geographic dispersion of offi…

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📄 Article Mirroring kernel.org repositories
06/08/2024 19:40

If you would like to mirror all or a subset of kernel.org git repositories, please use a tool we wrote for this purpose, called grokmirror. Grokmirror is git-aware and will create a complete mirror of kernel.org repositories and keep them automatically updated with no further involvement on your …

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📄 Article Fifty shades of Tux
06/08/2024 19:40

Special thanks to Benoît Monin for donating a MIT-licensed CSS theme to the kernel.org project to replace the one we hastily put together. Though the Pelican authors have since obtained a free-license commitment from the copyright owners of the CSS files shipping with Pelican, we wanted to have some…

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📄 Article XZ by default and JSON
06/08/2024 19:40

We've implemented two oft-requested features today: The download links now default to .tar.xz versions of archives There is now a JSON file with the release information located in https://www.kernel.org/releases.json. If you've been screen-scraping the front page, please use this instead. If you hav…

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📄 Article /pub tree resync-ing
06/08/2024 19:40

Due to a failure in one of the rsync scripts during the maintenance window, the mirrors of /pub hierarchy on www.kernel.org got erased. We are resyncing them now from the master storage, but in the meantime you will probably get an occasional "Forbidden". The entirety of the archive …

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📄 Article Cleanroom styles
06/08/2024 19:40

You are probably wondering what happened to the site's look. Unfortunately, we've been alerted that the default theme shipped by Pelican (which we largely adapted) has an unclear license. Until this is cleared up, we've put together a quick-and-dirty cleanroom CSS reimplementation that preserves the…

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📄 Article Pelican
06/08/2024 19:40

Welcome to the reworked kernel.org website. We have switched to using Pelican in order to statically render our site content, which simplifies mirroring and distribution. You can view the sources used to build this website in its own git repository. Additionally, we have switched from using gitweb-c…

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📄 Article Legal disclaimers and copyright
06/08/2024 19:40

Copyright and license Except where otherwise stated, content on this site is copyright (C) 1997-2014 by The Linux Kernel Organization, Inc. and is made available to you under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Distributed software is copyrighted by their respectiv…

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