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Ubuntu 26.10 Planning To Ship With The Linux 7.2 Kernel

Written by Michael Larabel in Ubuntu on 27 May 2026 at 01:05 PM EDT. 2 Comments

Canonical's kernel team confirmed today their intention of shipping the Ubuntu 26.10 release with what will be the Linux 7.2 kernel.

Since Canonical transitioned to always shipping with the latest major upstream Linux kernel version at release time, determining what kernel version will ship with a given Ubuntu Linux release has become more predictable. With Linux 7.2 likely to be out by late August or early September and Linux 7.3 not coming out until after Ubuntu 26.10's planned release date of 15 October, it's an easy given that Ubuntu 26.10 will be on Linux 7.2.

This Ubuntu Discourse thread confirms their plans for Linux 7.2 in Ubuntu 26.10, which is codenamed the Stonking Stingray.

Dozens of Phoronix articles have already begun covering the likely Linux 7.2 features based on early "-next" Git activity of patches being queued ahead of the mid-June merge window opening for this kernel version. Linux 7.2 should be shipping Cache Aware Scheduling, more file-system improvements, USB4STREAM as a nifty USB4/Thunderbolt feature, more AMD Zen 6 preparations, various gaming handheld driver improvements, the new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag, more Xe3P and Nova Lake enablement work, potentially the HDMI 2.1 FRL support for AMDGPU, and a variety of other new hardware support.

Stay tuned for the Linux 7.2 merge window coverage followed by benchmarks beginning in June. Ubuntu 26.10 should be a great post-LTS update with this fresh kernel and many other package updates to come.

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