Which Kernels are Actively Maintained with Ksplice?
Only specific kernels are actively maintained by Ksplice on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
For questions about supported kernels, send an email to ksplice-support_ww@oracle.com.
Kernels Actively Maintained with Ksplice
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Actively Maintained Kernel Type |
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UEK 8 (aarch64) starting with |
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UEK 8 (x86_64) starting with |
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UEK R7 (aarch64) starting with |
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UEK R7 (x86_64) starting with |
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UEK R6 (aarch64) starting with |
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UEK R6 (x86_64) starting with |
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Oracle Linux 10 Red Hat Compatible Kernels (RHCK) starting with the official release. |
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Oracle Linux 9 Red Hat Compatible Kernels (RHCK) starting with the official release. |
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Oracle Linux 8 Red Hat Compatible Kernels (RHCK) starting with the official release. |
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Oracle Linux 7 Red Hat Compatible Kernels (RHCK) starting with the official release. |
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| Ubuntu 24.04 Noble kernels and Hardware Enablement (HWE) kernels, starting with the official release. | Kernels include 6.8 versions. |
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Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy kernels and HWE kernels, starting with the official release. |
Kernels include 5.15 and 6.8
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| Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa HWE kernels, starting with the official release | Kernels include 5.15 versions |
Kernels No Longer Actively Maintained With Ksplice
The following kernels don't receive Ksplice updates, but any Ksplice updates previously issued are still available.
To maintain any of the following kernels on a listed Linux distribution, you need to manually upgrade them by using the yum update or dnf update command, or in the case of Ubuntu, by using the apt command. Kernel updates that don't use Ksplice require system reboots to be effective.
If you're running any of these kernel types on either Oracle Linux 6 or Oracle Linux 7, update to the minimum version of UEK R4.
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Kernel Type |
Kernel Version |
Releases No Longer Actively Maintained |
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UEK R5 |
All versions |
Oracle Linux 6 Oracle Linux 7 |
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UEK R4 |
All versions |
Oracle Linux 6 |
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UEK R3 |
All versions |
Oracle Linux 6 Oracle Linux 7 |
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UEK R2 |
All versions |
Oracle Linux 6 |
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RHCK |
All versions |
Oracle Linux 6 |
| Kernels shipped with RHEL 9. | All versions | RHEL 9 |
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CentOS and RHEL 8 kernels. |
All versions |
RHEL or CentOS Linux 8 |
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CentOS and RHEL 7 kernels. |
All versions |
RHEL or CentOS Linux 7 |
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Kernels shipped in RHEL/CentOS Linux 6 |
All versions |
RHEL or CentOS Linux 6 |
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GA Kernels shipped in Ubuntu 20.04 LTS |
5.4 GA | Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) |
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Kernels shipped in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. |
All versions |
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) |
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Kernels shipped in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS |
All versions |
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) |