Two new stable kernels, possible regression

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 6.19.4 and 6.18.14 stable kernels. Shortly after 6.19.4 was released Kris Karas reported "getting a repeatable Oops right when networking is initialized, likely when nft is loading its ruleset"; the problem did not appear to be present in 6.18.14. Users of nftables may wish to hold off on upgrades to 6.19.4 for now. We will provide updates as they are available.

Update: Kroah-Hartman has released the 6.19.5 and 6.18.15 kernels with a fix for the regression in 6.19.4 and 6.18.14. All users of netfilter are advised to upgrade to those versions.

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Posted Feb 28, 2026 18:31 UTC (Sat) by alspnost (guest, #2763) [Link]

And already, another whopping set of stable patches is being readied by Sasha L, to become v6.19.6, v6.18.16, etc. There seems to be a surge of big maintenance patches rolling in just now, in the wake of kernel 6.19.