Eight stable kernels for Thursday
Brief
The public drop is on kernel.org with signed tarballs and per-tree ChangeLogs. This is the regular weekly wave, not a single-CVE story. Distro packages will lag the upstream tags.
Notes
Versions published 2026-08-27 (kernel.org releases.json, latest_stable now 7.2.1):
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7.2.1 (ChangeLog, tag
2ea1dee74fcc) -
7.1.11 (tag
88885b8a9166) -
6.18.47 (tag
8d39b5b9244d) -
6.12.106 (tag
3d2e01e17724) -
6.6.154 (tag
a5597a402438) -
6.1.185 (tag
653cd79e1d50) -
5.15.218 (tag
08396d5d1e91) -
5.10.267 (tag
12de77b1233d)
Tip-tree (7.2.1) ChangeLog samples memory-safety backports already public in that series: Bluetooth accept-list and LE-list use-after-free on suspend/reset, several HID use-after-free and out-of-bounds paths, IPv6 ip6_finish_output2 use-after-free, and NFC out-of-bounds / uninit fixes. Full lists are in the ChangeLogs above. linux-next moved to next-20260827 in the same window (process only, not filed here). Greg Kroah-Hartman published the wave.
Users on these trees will want the matching package when their distro publishes it. Do not treat this card as a substitute for reading the ChangeLog for your tree.
Commit v7.2.1+v7.1.11+v6.18.47+v6.12.106+v6.6.154+v6.1.185+v5.15.218+v5.10.267