Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka will use Linux 6.17

Canonical has planned for Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka, which will be released on October 9th, to use the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel, which is currently at its fifth release candidate. This was done ahead of the kernel freeze that will start on September 25th, but not before the kernel feature freeze starts tomorrow.

According to Launchpad, the Linux source package has been updated to 6.17.0-3.3, which was published on September 5th of this year at the time that Linux 6.17 RC4 was still the current release candidate. This means that this plan went to fruition as of this date, and the migration from Linux 6.16 has become successful, even if Linux 6.17 has two release candidates left.

Ubuntu 25.10 Questing Quokka Beta will be released on September 18th with this version of the kernel being used. Afterwards, future versions of Linux 6.17 will be used as the Ubuntu release support goes on for nine months, which means that Ubuntu 25.10 will become EOL on July 2026.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS RR development will start after Ubuntu Questing gets released, and this is expected to start on October 16th.

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