Liquorix maintainer Steven Barrett tagged version 7.3-3 on November 12, 2026, built on the security-hardened Linux 7.3.4 base. Hours later he released 7.3-4, but it's just an errata to fix patch application rather than a substantive new release. The four changes in 7.3-3 are surgical and defensive, removing redundant scheduler code, fixing a zram short-read bug, correcting a memory-counter accounting error, and hardening page-table walks. It's aimed at gamers and media desktops on AMD64, though the low-latency tuning trades away some power efficiency and throughput.
XanMod shipped two simultaneous custom Linux kernel builds on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, placing MAIN at 7.3.4-xanmod1 and LTS at 6.18.63-xanmod1. Both track upstream stable releases that Greg Kroah-Hartman flagged with mandatory upgrade advisories, backed by unusually large batches of more than 1,250 and 860 patches respectively. The updates pack real security hardening, including a TSA mitigation for AMD Zen5 hardware and a series of NULL-pointer and refcount fixes. Installed on top of a heavily tuned patchset, XanMod remains a popular pick for gamers and tinkerers willing to rebuild kernel modules by hand.
Liquorix maintainer Steven Barrett released the 7.3-2 kernel build on Tuesday, November 10, folding the security-hardened Linux 7.3.4 into the distro's familiar low-latency configuration. He's deliberately calling it a "capstone" build, pausing months of experimental Project-C scheduler tweaks in favor of a stable, well-tested baseline. The kernel targets Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch Linux on AMD64 only, tuned for gamers, audio/video producers, and desktop power users who value responsiveness over raw throughput.
Liquorix has published its 7.3-1 release, moving the low-latency enthusiast kernel onto the fresh Linux 7.3.3 base. Maintainer Steven Barrett pushed the build November 8, and unlike recent versions it's a deliberately clean, well-tested capstone rather than a batch of experimental patches. It inherits Linux 7.3's record-setting features, including improved VRAM management, faster Btrfs fsync, and completed sched_ext support, all layered with Liquorix's usual 1,000 Hz tick rate and aggressive preemption tuning. The kernel remains AMD64-only with an install script for Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch, though it favors interactive and gaming workloads over battery life or servers.
XanMod shipped two new Linux kernels, pairing a fresh MAIN build on the record-breaking 7.3 mainline with a LTS build on the 6.18 long-term-support track, plus real-time twins. Both releases come rebased on upstream code Greg Kroah-Hartman published November 6th and loaded with security backports, including three Xen virtualization patches and a wave of ksmbd SMB fixes. Unlike a one-size-fits-all kernel, XanMod splits builds by CPU tier, so users must pick x64v1, x64v2, or x64v3 to match their processor or risk a failed boot.
Liquorix maintainer Steven Barrett tagged kernel 7.2-25 on GitHub November 4, another release built on top of upstream Linux 7.2.15. The release centers on four patches to the custom sched/alt scheduler that tighten task placement on cores and refine "sleep credit" priority boosts. It's a maintenance and refinement release rather than a feature bump, aimed at shaving microseconds off wake latency to make interactive workloads feel snappier. Liquorix remains a single-maintainer, AMD64-only kernel that improves responsiveness in gaming and A/V production while trading some raw throughput.
Liquorix 7.2-24 landed today, bundled with Linux 7.2.15, the very last 7.2 release Greg Kroah-Hartman will ever ship. That makes it the final 7.2-based build from the solo-maintainer project before the branch is retired in favor of 7.3. The release also carries a notable AI angle: two of the five commits advancing it are co-authored with Claude, mirroring "Assisted-by: Claude" tags already present in the upstream 7.2.15 fixes. Since the 7.2 branch is now end-of-life, users should upgrade to the upcoming 7.3 track or an LTS line before their current kernel goes stale.
Liquorix 7.2-23 dropped on November 2, 2026, from maintainer Steven Barrett, merging upstream Linux 7.2.14 into the low-latency enthusiast kernel. It's a clean-merge catch-up release with no new custom patches, preserving all of Liquorix's aggressive responsiveness tuning. The build rides on Linux 7.2's cache-aware scheduling and improved I/O, both of which pair naturally with its gaming and audio/video focus. The free kernel targets AMD64 desktops, and you can install it with a single script from liquorix.net.
XanMod released 7.2.15-xanmod1 on November 1, the newest build in its MAIN branch. Unlike most kernel drops, this one sits on Linux 7.2.15, which kernel.org has already marked end-of-life and stopped maintaining. The performance-focused custom kernel still bundles two months of upstream security and bug fixes on top of its LLVM-optimized patchset for x86-64 systems. Users should pick the right psABI tier and watch for DKMS module lag before upgrading.
XanMod shipped three coordinated kernel updates, landing all of its active branches, EDGE, MAIN and LTS, in a single day across different upstream Linux trees. Every release is dominated by a heavy batch of io_uring concurrency fixes, with MAIN carrying 54 of its 91 commits and LTS 48 of its 115. The LTS build (6.18.60) stands out for an unexpected overhaul of the AX.25, NET/ROM and ROSE amateur-radio networking stack, packed with memory-safety and leak fixes.
XanMod has shipped two new Linux kernels on October 26th, with MAIN branch 7.2.13-xanmod1 bringing the freshest features and LTS 6.18.59-xanmod1 offering long-term support through December 2027. Both builds follow closely behind the Liquorix kernel release and ride on the latest upstream stable point releases from Greg Kroah-Hartman. Rather than new features, the pair is dominated by a dense batch of memory-safety and security fixes targeting NTFS, SMB/CIFS, ksmbd, networking sockets, and KVM. Users can install via the APT repository or standalone .deb files, choosing from x64v1, x64v2, or x64v3 build tiers to match their CPU.
Liquorix maintainer Steven Barrett shipped kernel 7.2-22 on Monday, October 26, 2026, cleanly merging upstream Linux 7.2.13 with the project's usual low-latency Zen tuning and no experimental patches. The quiet release serves as a sensible capstone to a whirlwind fortnight during which Liquorix put out five builds, including 7.2-20, which briefly folded server-class MGLRU-FG memory research into a desktop gaming kernel. Liquorix is an AMD64-only, pre-patched kernel that trades raw throughput and battery life for snappier interactive responsiveness, making it a fit for gamers and A/V producers but not servers or real-time workloads. To install it, users can run the official one-line script or set up the amd64-only repo manually, keeping an older kernel in GRUB as a fallback.
XanMod released 7.3.0-xanmod1 today, the first build of its rolling EDGE branch built on the freshly shipped mainline Linux 7.3. Maintained since 2015 by Brazilian developer Alexandre Frade, the kernel layers scheduling, I/O, networking and compiler-optimization patches onto near-vanilla mainline for Debian-based systems. The update rides on Linux 7.3's record-breaking 18,765 commits, adding sched_ext, failfs sandboxing and filesystem gains on top of XanMod's familiar gaming and performance tweaks. Installable via apt for 64-bit Debian distros, it's aimed at enthusiasts who want the latest mainline fastest and are comfortable rebuilding external modules.
Liquorix 7.2-21 released on October 21, 2026, built on top of stable Linux 7.2.12 with maintainer Steven Barrett's usual low-latency tuning. Its headline change upgrades the compressed-swap system to "zswap v4 and zram v5," folding in four upstream patches that cut lock contention and speed up memory swapping when RAM runs tight. It's deliberately the most conservative of the project's recent builds, stepping away from the experimental MGLRU-FG memory code shipped in 7.2-20. Gamers and multimedia users can install it via a one-line script.
XanMod shipped fresh stable builds across all three of its branches, with MAIN riding Linux 7.2.12 and both LTS and RT following 6.18.58. Each release was personally tagged by solo maintainer Alexandre Frade and built on the latest upstream updates curated by Greg Kroah-Hartman. The MAIN build brings cache-aware scheduling, a revised GPU scheduler, and Btrfs gains, while the 6.18.58 LTS line offers longer-term stability plus a real-time PREEMPT_RT option. Both bundles include backported security fixes, but XanMod warns that proprietary DKMS modules like NVIDIA, OpenZFS, and VMware Workstation may need to be verified before upgrading.
PHP issued an emergency out-of-band patch today for two critical RCE flaws dubbed PHP2Shell, rated 9.2 on CVSS v4.0, and sury.org has already published the builds for Debian and Ubuntu. The four current branches get native fixes, 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35, while the seven end-of-life branches from 8.1 down to 5.6 get the same protection backported. Since the bugs permit unauthenticated RCE and memory disclosure across every deployment model, PHP says updating is the only reliable fix, though interim steps like disabling session.upload_progress can buy a little time. Operators can update in place with a standard apt command and then restart PHP-FPM or Apache, sidestepping the emergency migration many had feared.
Liquorix maintainer Steven Barrett released two kernels on Friday, October 16, 2026, within about an hour of each other. The first, 7.2-19, is a clean merge of the new Linux 7.2.11 stable release. The second, 7.2-20, adds Kairui Song's MGLRU Frequency Guided v4 patch set, a server-oriented memory-management technology reaching a desktop gaming kernel for the first time. Reported benchmarks show +10% to 40% gains, but those tests ran against database and Android workloads, leaving its real impact on gaming and audio boxes unproven.
XanMod shipped two tuning-kernel builds 6.18.57-xanmod1 and 7.2.11-xanmod1. Both are drop-in kernels for x86-64 Debian-based systems, letting you choose between the long-horizon stability of the LTS tree or the bleeding-edge features of the current mainline series. XanMod also maintains a companion NVIDIA driver repo, cautions that DKMS modules can lag the newest kernels by weeks, and already shipped an RT build earlier in the month.
Liquorix kernel maintainer Steven Barrett (damentz) tagged version 7.2-18 on October 12, riding upstream Linux 7.2.10 with a focused batch of seventeen patches targeting zswap and zram memory compression. The release trims latency-inducing waste in how the system compresses and decompresses RAM-backed swap, staying true to Liquorix's job of keeping interactive systems snappy rather than chasing raw throughput.
PHP 8.6.0 RC3 reached Ondřej Surý's Debian PHP repository today, four days after the PHP Group tagged the candidate. Since RC1 was skipped, this is effectively the second public release candidate, with RC4 on October 22, RC5 on November 5, and General Availability landing November 19. The build focuses on bug-fixing rather than new features, patching regressions like the Fiber error_reporting=0 bug, the hrtime() clock running 4 percent too fast, and array_map() TypeErrors under strict_types=1. It's a test build, so operators should install with a pinned version if they want to stress-test 8.6 before the stable release ships.
