Linux 6.0 arrives as Linus Torvalds promises ‘core new things’ ahead

Linus Torvalds has announced the stable release of Linux 6.0 but flagged it doesn’t contain the “core new things” coming in Linux 6.1.

Since the first release candidate (rc1) for Linux 6.0 in August, Torvalds has played down the meaning of the major version number change, which would have otherwise been 5.20. While he has called 6.0 a “fairly sizable release”, he also said at conference last month “I wanted 6.0 to be boring.”