As anticipated the [1]Linux 6.16 kernel was promoted to stable. Linux 6.16 now greets the world with various performance improvements, NVIDIA Hopper and Blackwell open-source GPU driver support in Nouveau, Intel Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) preparations, and many other exciting enhancements.

Linux 6.16 is a great kernel update for the summer of 2025. I've already covered the Linux 6.16 highlights at length within the feature overview article of [2]Linux 6.16 Features From NVIDIA Blackwell To Performance Improvements & Intel APX and then the short summary in [3]Linux 6.16 Is Exciting For Open-Source NVIDIA, OpenVPN DCO & More Performance . Lots of great work as always. The Linux 6.16 source tree weighs in at [4]38.4 million lines in its source tree across 78.4k files, as measured by the cloc tool.

Linux 6.16 is available from [5]git.kernel.org .

Now it's onward to the [6]Linux 6.17 merge cycle of which [7]there are many changes already on tap . Linux 6.17 will be particularly prominent as with its early October debut is anticipated to be the kernel [8]powering Ubuntu 25.10 and should be the out-of-the-box kernel for Fedora 43 and other late 2025 Linux distribution releases.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.16

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-616-features

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-Features-Reminder

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-AMDGPU-Driver-Size

[5] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=038d61fd642278bab63ee8ef722c50d10ab01e8f

[6] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Linux+6.17

[7] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-Early-Features

[8] https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-With-Linux-6.17