![]() Getting the latest kernel for your RHEL systems You can browse and download Red Hat released kernels at this url. They are not from the same branch and are not intended for RHEL7.6. There are newer kernel versions available in other branches, such as kernel version 3.10.0-1062 (for RHEL7.7), and 4.18.0-80 (for RHEL8). Looking at the kernel packages in Figure 2, one can see that at the time of writing, the latest version of that kernel package's branch 3.10.0-957 is 3.10.0-957.38.3, found here: The Red Hat distributed kernel package has its own versioning, in this case, 957. From an operating system point of view, that kernel is built from source 3.10.0 available from the kernel package. That means, for example with RHEL7.6, that it shipped with the kernel version branch 3.10.0-957. ![]() RHEL7.6).įigure 1: Listing of RHEL releases with kernel versions This page in the customer portal shows the kernel version "branch" associated with a release of RHEL ( e.g. ![]() When Red Hat releases a major or minor update to RHEL, they ship it with a specific branch of the kernel version. A better approach would be to understand where to get that information about the latest kernel version for a given version of RHEL. Unfortunately, that might only be valid at the time of writing. Some users, trying to be helpful, gave a specific version of the kernel package. What is the latest kernel version for my version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)? In this post we'll see how you can find out. I read an interesting question on the Red Hat Learning Community forums recently.
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