Hi,
On Wed, Dec 31, 2025 at 03:31:54PM +0000, Robert Foster wrote:
> Hi,To whom is may concern,
This is not the correct place to report bugs (and such requests are a
form of wishlist-level bug), but in my opinion purely as a Debian user
your request would not be actionable anyway, because…
> to please release an official Debian ISO with the v6.18.2 Kernel.
The current stable release has chosen 5.12.x LTS and will stick for it
for the life of that release. There is no way to get a newer packaged
kernel version except by:
- getting it from testing, sid or experimental sources, with the
associated trade-offs that this choice brings, or;
- building it yourself
> Right now Debian official release only has Kernel v6.12.x And it's way
> too old.
It's current Debian policy to work this way. You could lobby for Debian
to do something a bit like Ubuntu does and package a so-called "hardware
enablement" kernel (HWE in Ubuntu terminology) which is a newer kernel
version backported to their stable release. There would need to be
volunteers to do it.
> asking the Debian team to please release Debian ISO with the latest
> LTS kernel which is v6.18.2,so many of us Linux users can benefit from
> the newest features & support that Kernel v6.18.2 has.
The experimental distribution already has packages for 6.18.2:
https://packages.debian.org/experimental/linux-image-amd64
If you get your kernels from experimental then you'll pretty much always
have the latest version. With the usual downsides that security releases
may not be as quick as for stable, kernel may not integrate perfectly
with other packages, etc.
> Yes I know I won’t get Debian-packaged kernels with APT updates and
> updates must be done manually.
Getting your kernels from "experimental" does get you packaged,
automated updates, so sounds like your feature request is already
satisfied.
Personally I wouldn't do it though unless I absolutely needed to for a
vital piece of hardware support, due to questions about compatibility
with the rest of the packages in the stable release.
See:
https://wiki.debian.org/HowToUpgradeKernel
for hot to get your kernel from "experimental".
Thanks,
Andy
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