On Wed, Feb 4, 2026 at 9:11 PM Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 6.18.9 release. There are 122 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:38:23 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/stable-review/patch-6.18.9-rc1.... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-6.18.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
build and boot report for Linux 6.18.9-rc1.
The kernel was built and booted successfull on both arm64 and x86_64 architectures using the defconfig. Testing was performed in virtual environments, and the system ran as expected.
No dmesg regressions were found during testing.
Build details: Architectures: arm64, x86_64 Kernel version: 6.18.9 Configuration: defconfig Source: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git Commit: 28a73c31d7f5d9d2276c92e1d4891c18a5631e6e
Tested-by: Dileep Malepu dileep.debian@gmail.com