Linux 7.1.9, 6.18.45, and 6.12.104 Stable Releases
By BIOS Founding Team
Greg Kroah-Hartman pushed simultaneous stable updates across the 7.1, 6.18, and 6.12 kernel branches, focused on networking stability, Thunderbolt peripheral-validation fixes, and closing a BPF reference-counting race.
As routine maintenance releases, they carry no new features, only backported fixes tested against the linux-stable tree, exactly the kind of quiet, unglamorous work that keeps the kernel millions of servers run on trustworthy.
Full details: https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/linux-kernel-612104-61845-and-719-drop-with-thunderbolt-and-bpf-fixes
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