Linux Kernel 5.6 Reached End of Life, Upgrade to Linux Kernel 5.7 Now

Posted by hanuca on Jun 22, 2020 5:52 PM EDT
9to5Linux; By Marius Nestor
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Believe it or not, the Linux kernel 5.6 is now EOL (End-of-Life) and it will no longer receive updates or security fixes. Everyone is urged to update to the latest Linux 5.7 kernel series as soon as possible.

Launched at the end of March 2020, Linux kernel 5.6 was the first to come with built-in WireGuard support, a top-notch, fast, modern, and secure VPN (Virtual Private Network) tunnel for providing next-generation VPN connections on Linux-powered machines. Most probably your GNU/Linux distribution is not even running the Linux 5.6 kernel, but it looks like it’ll never will as it reached end of life last week with the release of the Linux 5.6.19 update, as announced by renowned kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman on the Linux kernel mailing list.

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