XanMod shipped two performance-tuned Linux kernels today, 7.2.10-xanmod1 on the stable mainline tree and 6.18.56-xanmod1 on the LTS branch, giving Debian-based users a clean choice between bleeding-edge features and long-term stability. The builds don't write their own code but repackage the vanilla kernel with LLVM ThinLTO optimizations, BBRv3 congestion control, Cloudflare TCP fixes, and enthusiast touches like PCIe ACS override and Steam Deck sensor support. Both releases are dominated by security and correctness hardening rather than new features, with the LTS tree 6.18 supported through December 2028.
Liquorix tagged its newest kernel build, 7.2-17 today, sitting on top of upstream Linux 7.2.10. It's really a maintenance release: the changelog is just "merge v7.2.10" plus a version bump, carrying forward the real feature work from last week's 7.2-16, which added a boot-switchable "PDS sleep credit." The enthusiast kernel swaps in the custom Project-C/PDS scheduler, a 1000 Hz tick, and full preemption for snappier interactive performance, though that comes at a cost to raw throughput. Available for Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch on AMD64 only, it suits gamers and power users who want responsiveness but isn't a fit for set-and-forget servers.
Liquorix maintainer Steven Barrett released kernel build 7.2-16 on October 6, 2026, built on top of upstream Linux 7.2.9. The update centers on Project-C scheduler refinements and adds a boot switch so users can toggle the PDS sleep credit without recompiling. It also wires the sleep credit into the ZEN Interactive profile and reads a fresh timestamp for wakeup deadlines. Available for AMD64 on Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, and Fedora, the kernel targets gamers and audio producers who value responsiveness over throughput.
Liquorix maintainer Steven Barrett shipped 7.2-15 today, updating the enthusiast kernel to track upstream Linux 7.2.9. The three-line changelog also undoing a Project-C scheduler tweak called "sched/alt" that Barrett had added just five days earlier in 7.2-14. The quick add-and-revert cycle highlights how Liquorix functions as a live testing ground for scheduler experiments that could eventually influence upstream Linux. It remains a free, AMD64-only build installed via a one-line script or your distro's package system.
XanMod released three performance-tuned kernel builds, rebuilding the latest upstream Linux stable code as 7.2.9-xanmod1, 6.18.55-xanmod1, and 6.18.55-rt-xanmod1. These builds keep the project's signature optimizations, including LLVM compiler tuning, workload-adjusted scheduling, and default BBRv3 and Cloudflare TCP networking patches. The changelogs are dominated by security and correctness hardening, with heavy KVM, networking, XFS, and GPU driver fixes sourced largely from syzbot findings.
Liquorix, the enthusiast Linux kernel, has shipped version 7.2-14, built on upstream Linux 7.2.8 and tagged October 1, 2026. The headline change lets a coupled waker/wakee thread pair alternate across busy cores instead of starving each other on one SMT slot, targeting fully loaded multithreaded systems where no core is idle. A secondary tweak enables VIDEO_INTEL_CVS for broader Intel camera and media support, while security fixes like CVE-2026-43494 get backported from upstream. Install it with the official script across Debian, Ubuntu, and Arch, though builds target AMD64 only.
Steven Barrett released Liquorix Linux Kernel 7.2-13, merging upstream Linux 7.2.8 and bumping the package version to 7.2.8-1. Unlike most of its 7.x siblings, this point release adds no fresh Project-C scheduler patches, since those got baked in across releases 7.2-1 through 7.2-12. The build still carries forward the project's signature interactive tuning, including SMT-aware scheduling, Zen Interactive frequency defaults, and the dmem-ttm-v8 VRAM patchset.
Ondřej Surý's sury.org repository has repackaged four PHP security releases for Debian and Ubuntu users: 8.5.8, 8.4.26, 8.3.35, and 8.2.34. Three shipped on 24 September 2026, while 8.5.8 had already gone out on 2 July, so it has been sitting in the repos for a couple of months. All four are tagged as security releases, with many flaws facing the network and 8.4.26 carrying at least eleven assigned CVEs. Debian and Ubuntu admins can patch their systems through a standard apt upgrade.
Debian 14, codenamed "forky," has opened its official call for desktop artwork proposals, with the deadline set for November 26, 2026. The Debian Desktop Team re-sent the July 12 notice after it failed to reach the wider announce list and pushed the deadline out roughly two months. The winning theme would appear across the boot splash, login manager, wallpaper and installer branding. Forky is shaping up as a landmark release, being the first to mandate reproducible builds and add LoongArch64 as an official architecture.
XanMod shipped two new kernel builds on September 25, 2026, with 7.2.8-xanmod1 tracking the mainline 7.2 series and 6.18.54-xanmod1 following the 6.18 long-term-support line. Both mirror Greg Kroah-Hartman's upstream point releases of the same week and arrive together, letting enthusiasts grab the newest features or servers pull a more stable build. The dominant theme across both changelogs is security hardening, especially a major round of fixes to the SMB/CIFS client, along with Wi-Fi, IPsec, XFS, btrfs, and AMDGPU updates. Maintained by Alexandre Frade since 2015, the kernels install via a single apt install on supported Debian- and Ubuntu-based systems.
Debian has launched the Inference Portal at inference.debian.net, a new service giving contributors shared, free AI model access sponsored by Scaleway's credits. Only active Debian Developers and Maintainers can sign in with their Salsa accounts to get an OpenAI-compatible API key, with two models available: DeepSeek V4 Flash and Zhipu's GLM-5.2. It's the infrastructure payoff from a razor-thin August 2026 vote that narrowly permitted AI-assisted contributions, and it enforces fair-use budgets ($25/week for developers, $10 for maintainers) while keeping prompt data in France under Scaleway's zero-retention policy.
Liquorix shipped kernel 7.2-12 today, merging upstream Linux 7.2.7 and flipping its Debian ABI from 6-1 to 7-1. Unlike the frantic early-September sprints, this release restores a clean one-step cadence after 7.2-11 had skipped v7.2.5. The real story lives behind the scenes: a rebuilt Arch Linux CI pipeline featuring a new Jenkinsfile, Docker registry-mirror support, and a wget-to-curl switch.
XanMod released new stable kernel builds with the main branch at 7.2.7 and the LTS line jumping to 6.18.53. The real-time variant, 6.18.52-rt-xanmod1, landed earlier on 14 September running RT scheduling over the same 6.18 base. These performance-tuned kernels ship LLVM compiler optimizations, memory and scheduler tuning, and a pile of third-party patchsets like Cloudflare's TCP collapse fix and Google's BBRv3. Install them via the official APT repo at deb.xanmod.org, though note that NVIDIA, OpenZFS, VirtualBox, and VMware DKMS modules may lag the latest kernel.
XanMod released three coordinated kernel updates on September 14, 2026, across its MAIN, LTS, and RT branches, matching upstream Linux 7.2.6 and 6.18.52 exactly. This is a security and stability-heavy point release, with roughly 1,800 commits in the mainline build and about 1,490 in the LTS pair. The mainline line centers on a major ksmbd/SMB security overhaul, while the LTS build hands AMD users new power-management knobs like raw EPP writes and plants an early seed of 802.11bn UHR WiFi support. Debian and Ubuntu users can install via XanMod's APT repository, though they should watch for DKMS module compatibility issues with newer kernels.
Liquorix Linux Kernel 7.2-11 has been released. The release caps the project's fastest pace ever, with seven packages going out in a ten-day window from 7.2-5 to 7.2-11. Most of the action happened in the surrounding builds, especially the Project-C scheduler tweaks and the 7.2-8 dmem-ttm-v8 memory patch that helps low-VRAM and integrated-GPU systems. It is a clean baseline with prior patches carried forward, so the real value stays in Liquorix's hand-tuned scheduler rather than any new version lead.
Debian has released live images of its seventh point update for the Trixie stable branch, delivering a massive security sweep across 70+ packages that includes critical fixes for QEMU, glibc, and OpenSSL. The amd64 live images comes with GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, and traditional desktops like Xfce 4.20, Cinnamon 6.4.10, and MATE 1.27 alongside Firefox ESR 140 and PipeWire 1.4.2. These bootable ISOs run entirely from RAM without modifying your hard drive, making them perfect for testing new environments or performing forensics before committing to an installation. You can download the 1.9 GB to 4.2 GB variants directly from the official cdimage mirrors and verify them with the provided SHA-512 checksums before flashing a USB stick.
XanMod dropped fresh kernel builds for Debian-based Linux on September 12, updating both the rolling mainline track to 7.2.5-xanmod1 and the long-term support line to 6.18.51-xanmod1. Both packages run through LLVM software pipelining and Graysky x86_64 tuning, delivering the kind of desktop and gaming-focused performance gains that the project has built its reputation on. The upstream patch sets bring solid security hardening, NVIDIA Blackwell fixes for the open-source nouveau driver, and a default switch to Google’s BBRv3 congestion control. If you need deterministic latency, the LTS branch still ships a PREEMPT_RT variant, while mainline stays the go-to for the latest scheduler experiments and memory management rewrites.
Debian GNU/Linux 13.7 "trixie" launched today, as a security-focused point release delivering 60 advisories across 47 packages. The update aggressively targets critical infrastructure, including 20+ CVEs for QEMU's secure boot bypass, 19 for ImageMagick, and 17 for wolfssl. A foundational glibc overhaul triggers a massive rebuild cascade affecting core utilities like bash and busybox, while the installer kernel advances to 6.12.107+deb13 with hardened EFI secure boot chains. Users can immediately apply the patches via apt full-upgrade, with new official installation images arriving shortly.
Liquorix 7.2-10 drops today with two fresh "Project-C" scheduler patches that refine wake-affinity placement for both SMT sibling threads and non-SMT performance cores. The release marks the tenth tag in under two weeks, a pace that coincides with a freshly accepted Debian Sid build confirming broad stability. Built on the Zen Kernel, the package still prioritizes low-latency responsiveness over raw throughput using PDS scheduling, a 1000Hz tick rate, and hard kernel preemption.
Liquorix Linux Kernel 7.2-9 has been released. The update centers on a Project-C scheduler tweak that pins synchronous wakees to the waker's physical core until it's fully occupied, directly addressing cross-core thrashing and system hangs on SMT hardware. This refinement arrives after the scheduler was completely rolled back in version 7.2-6 due to severe regressions, forcing a slow, patch-by-patch reintroduction alongside Steam Deck VRAM fixes.
