Linus Torvalds keeps his ‘fingers and toes’ rule by decreeing next Linux will be version 7.0

Theregister | 09-02-2026 01:52pm |

But first, kernel 6.19 is upon us, with many goodies Penguin emperor Linus Torvalds has announced the next version of the Linux kernel will be version 7.0, a matter of some small interest, because it continues his convention of not using version numbers he can’t count on his fingers and toes, and perhaps cements a numbering convention that sees kernel series end with version 19....

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