A new XanMod Linux Kernel based on Linux Kernel 6.6.8 has been released. XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
Linux 6.6.8-xanmod1
XanMod is a general-purpose Linux kernel distribution with custom settings and new features. Built to provide a stable, responsive and smooth desktop experience.
The real-time version is recommended for critical runtime applications such as Linux gaming eSports, streaming, live productions and ultra-low latency enthusiasts.
Supports all recent 64-bit versions of Debian and Ubuntu-based systems.
Main Features
Install via Terminal
echo 'deb http://deb.xanmod.org releases main' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xanmod-kernel.list && wget -qO - https://dl.xanmod.org/gpg.key | sudo apt-key add -Then update and install:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install linux-xanmodReboot.
Meta packages available: linux-xanmod, linux-xanmod-edge, linux-xanmod-lts, linux-xanmod-rt-edge and linux-xanmod-rt.
To try without adding the repository
* linux-firmware-image package is optionalDownload from Sourceforge and install:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/xanmod/files/
Linux 6.6.8-xanmod1
- 005045c Linux 6.6.8-xanmod1
- 8813c2d Merge tag 'v6.6.8' into 6.6
- 4c9646a Linux 6.6.8
- 885faf3 RDMA/mlx5: Change the key being sent for MPV device affiliation
- 06f61af x86/speculation, objtool: Use absolute relocations for annotations
- 3432f96 ring-buffer: Have rb_time_cmpxchg() set the msb counter too
- b3778a2 ring-buffer: Do not try to put back write_stamp
- bc17bc9 ring-buffer: Fix a race in rb_time_cmpxchg() for 32 bit archs
- ae76d9b ring-buffer: Fix writing to the buffer with max_data_size
- 307ed13 ring-buffer: Have saved event hold the entire event
- 5e58483 ring-buffer: Do not update before stamp when switching sub-buffers
- 5062b8c tracing: Update snapshot buffer on resize if it is allocated
- b02bf0d ring-buffer: Fix memory leak of free page
- e72ed49 smb: client: fix OOB in smb2_query_reparse_point()
- ef748d4 smb: client: fix NULL deref in asn1_ber_decoder()
- 17a0f64 smb: client: fix potential OOBs in smb2_parse_contexts()
- 5347333 smb: client: fix OOB in receive_encrypted_standard()
- 4029b02 drm/i915: Fix remapped stride with CCS on ADL+
- a9d951b drm/i915: Fix intel_atomic_setup_scalers() plane_state handling
- b6295a1 drm/i915: Fix ADL+ tiled plane stride when the POT stride is smaller than the original
- a8f922a drm/amd/display: Disable PSR-SU on Parade 0803 TCON again
- c7f6e83 drm/amd/display: Restore guard against default backlight value < 1 nit
- a511e85 drm/edid: also call add modes in EDID connector update fallback
- d506706 drm/amdgpu: fix tear down order in amdgpu_vm_pt_free
- d3cf024 btrfs: don't clear qgroup reserved bit in release_folio
- 1823491 btrfs: fix qgroup_free_reserved_data int overflow
- 14570df btrfs: free qgroup reserve when ORDERED_IOERR is set
- 37b561d kexec: drop dependency on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC from CRASH_DUMP
- 7a4ae7a mm/shmem: fix race in shmem_undo_range w/THP
- a107d6a mm/mglru: reclaim offlined memcgs harder
- 6b131c2 mm/mglru: respect min_ttl_ms with memcgs
- c5f67b7 mm/mglru: try to stop at high watermarks
- b2ce691 mm/mglru: fix underprotected page cache
- ed50e07 dmaengine: fsl-edma: fix DMA channel leak in eDMAv4
- 9127515 dmaengine: stm32-dma: avoid bitfield overflow assertion
- 03e63e4 drm/mediatek: Fix access violation in mtk_drm_crtc_dma_dev_get
- 3aae4ef drm/amdgpu/sdma5.2: add begin/end_use ring callbacks
- 28b3642 team: Fix use-after-free when an option instance allocation fails
- 2c8a21a arm64: mm: Always make sw-dirty PTEs hw-dirty in pte_modify
- d228e98 Revert "selftests: error out if kernel header files are not yet built"
- 4f18d18 ext4: prevent the normalized size from exceeding EXT_MAX_BLOCKS
- 40abc38 soundwire: stream: fix NULL pointer dereference for multi_link
- c1d2d08 cxl/hdm: Fix dpa translation locking
- 6544617 btrfs: do not allow non subvolume root targets for snapshot
- 545d55a perf: Fix perf_event_validate_size() lockdep splat
- 5ce0fb8 HID: hid-asus: add const to read-only outgoing usb buffer
- 610610d arm64: add dependency between vmlinuz.efi and Image
- df32e88 smb: client: set correct file type from NFS reparse points
- 4d07e5d smb: client: introduce ->parse_reparse_point()
- d5c959a smb: client: implement ->query_reparse_point() for SMB1
- e25ee0c net: usb: qmi_wwan: claim interface 4 for ZTE MF290
- 6abb8c2 eventfs: Do not allow NULL parent to eventfs_start_creating()
- a739ceb asm-generic: qspinlock: fix queued_spin_value_unlocked() implementation
- 9777499 scripts/checkstack.pl: match all stack sizes for s390
- 1f75542 nfc: virtual_ncidev: Add variable to check if ndev is running
- c9d25e4 HID: multitouch: Add quirk for HONOR GLO-GXXX touchpad
- 9fc2827 HID: hid-asus: reset the backlight brightness level on resume
- b3ebe19 nbd: pass nbd_sock to nbd_read_reply() instead of index
- af48c40 HID: add ALWAYS_POLL quirk for Apple kb
- c38f7b0 HID: glorious: fix Glorious Model I HID report
- 6b3507b HID: apple: add Jamesdonkey and A3R to non-apple keyboards list
- d4b50ac HID: mcp2221: Allow IO to start during probe
- 2afe67c HID: mcp2221: Set driver data before I2C adapter add
- 086f91f platform/x86: intel_telemetry: Fix kernel doc descriptions
- f61771a LoongArch: Implement constant timer shutdown interface
- c28fec4 LoongArch: Mark {dmw,tlb}_virt_to_page() exports as non-GPL
- 71d8348 LoongArch: Silence the boot warning about 'nokaslr'
- ab3f300 LoongArch: Record pc instead of offset in la_abs relocation
- 0337260 LoongArch: Add dependency between vmlinuz.efi and vmlinux.efi
- 0ade0b8 selftests/bpf: fix bpf_loop_bench for new callback verification scheme
- 9514925 nvme: catch errors from nvme_configure_metadata()
- 89fc902 nvme-auth: set explanation code for failure2 msgs
- c34fa2d nbd: fix null-ptr-dereference while accessing 'nbd->config'
- 8c15173 nbd: factor out a helper to get nbd_config without holding 'config_lock'
- 4087936 nbd: fold nbd config initialization into nbd_alloc_config()
- 4a4bba9 bcache: avoid NULL checking to c->root in run_cache_set()
- 2869189 bcache: add code comments for bch_btree_node_get() and __bch_btree_node_alloc()
- 6653417 bcache: remove redundant assignment to variable cur_idx
- 09bdafb bcache: avoid oversize memory allocation by small stripe_size
- 0730b1e blk-cgroup: bypass blkcg_deactivate_policy after destroying
- 5aba47c blk-throttle: fix lockdep warning of "cgroup_mutex or RCU read lock required!"
- 462f111 rxrpc: Fix some minor issues with bundle tracing
- c40c0b8 stmmac: dwmac-loongson: Add architecture dependency
- 2ebf775 usb: aqc111: check packet for fixup for true limit
- 54d8c1d x86/hyperv: Fix the detection of E820_TYPE_PRAM in a Gen2 VM
- ca3ebcf selftests/mm: cow: print ksft header before printing anything else
- cd378c3 drm/i915: Use internal class when counting engine resets
- 54d0831 drm/i915/selftests: Fix engine reset count storage for multi-tile
- 83a42d7 accel/ivpu/37xx: Fix interrupt_clear_with_0 WA initialization
- 0afcc62 accel/ivpu: Print information about used workarounds
- 7d6e9cb drm/mediatek: Add spinlock for setting vblank event in atomic_begin
- 8964524 drm/mediatek: fix kernel oops if no crtc is found
- 98bd0b4 PCI: vmd: Fix potential deadlock when enabling ASPM
- f94c443 ksmbd: fix wrong name of SMB2_CREATE_ALLOCATION_SIZE
- 1e1f461 PCI/ASPM: Add pci_enable_link_state_locked()
- 4fb5358 PCI: loongson: Limit MRRS to 256
- 5cc8d88 Revert "PCI: acpiphp: Reassign resources on bridge if necessary"
- 56e2212 ALSA: hda/tas2781: reset the amp before component_add
- d94fad0 ALSA: hda/tas2781: call cleanup functions only once
- 795e91c ALSA: hda/tas2781: handle missing EFI calibration data
- 7fc8bfd ALSA: hda/tas2781: leave hda_component in usable state
- ffd1fe1 ALSA: hda/realtek: Apply mute LED quirk for HP15-db
- 7ec57c1 ALSA: hda/hdmi: add force-connect quirks for ASUSTeK Z170 variants
- c52ebaf ALSA: hda/hdmi: add force-connect quirk for NUC5CPYB
- 9566ef5 io_uring/cmd: fix breakage in SOCKET_URING_OP_SIOC* implementation
- ce5a6df fuse: dax: set fc->dax to NULL in fuse_dax_conn_free()
- fbcddc7 fuse: disable FOPEN_PARALLEL_DIRECT_WRITES with FUSE_DIRECT_IO_ALLOW_MMAP
- 2939dd3 fuse: share lookup state between submount and its parent
- 9f36c1c fuse: Rename DIRECT_IO_RELAX to DIRECT_IO_ALLOW_MMAP
- 6e5782b HID: Add quirk for Labtec/ODDOR/aikeec handbrake
- fea8562 HID: i2c-hid: Add IDEA5002 to i2c_hid_acpi_blacklist[]
- 207f135 cred: get rid of CONFIG_DEBUG_CREDENTIALS
- f6a7ce5 cred: switch to using atomic_long_t
- 3b5daf2 net: atlantic: fix double free in ring reinit logic
- e15ded3 appletalk: Fix Use-After-Free in atalk_ioctl
- 58c5566 net: stmmac: Handle disabled MDIO busses from devicetree
- ad531df net: stmmac: dwmac-qcom-ethqos: Fix drops in 10M SGMII RX
- da8732c dpaa2-switch: do not ask for MDB, VLAN and FDB replay
- 77e566c dpaa2-switch: fix size of the dma_unmap
- fa63477 vsock/virtio: Fix unsigned integer wrap around in virtio_transport_has_space()
- f18ac4b sign-file: Fix incorrect return values check
- e0069c2 stmmac: dwmac-loongson: Make sure MDIO is initialized before use
- 2cc8ffc net: ena: Fix XDP redirection error
- 0116e02 net: ena: Fix DMA syncing in XDP path when SWIOTLB is on
- 0cb2021 net: ena: Fix xdp drops handling due to multibuf packets
- c22877f net: ena: Destroy correct number of xdp queues upon failure
- d6bef00 net: Remove acked SYN flag from packet in the transmit queue correctly
- 7106a15 qed: Fix a potential use-after-free in qed_cxt_tables_alloc
- 54f59a2 iavf: Fix iavf_shutdown to call iavf_remove instead iavf_close
- e768a04 iavf: Handle ntuple on/off based on new state machines for flow director
- 3beb9d6 iavf: Introduce new state machines for flow director
- 63caa51 net/rose: Fix Use-After-Free in rose_ioctl
- 531fd46 atm: Fix Use-After-Free in do_vcc_ioctl
- f115b31 octeontx2-af: Fix pause frame configuration
- 6b5de31 octeontx2-af: Update RSS algorithm index
- 5295d2a octeontx2-pf: Fix promisc mcam entry action
- 6047060 octeon_ep: explicitly test for firmware ready value
- 15f300e net/sched: act_ct: Take per-cb reference to tcf_ct_flow_table
- dd75adf octeontx2-af: fix a use-after-free in rvu_nix_register_reporters
- 4317fba net: fec: correct queue selection
- 8210250 atm: solos-pci: Fix potential deadlock on &tx_queue_lock
- 4faf39c atm: solos-pci: Fix potential deadlock on &cli_queue_lock
- 9542105 bnxt_en: Fix HWTSTAMP_FILTER_ALL packet timestamp logic
- 909f5a4 bnxt_en: Fix wrong return value check in bnxt_close_nic()
- d8ea6b0 bnxt_en: Fix skb recycling logic in bnxt_deliver_skb()
- bf9ceb1 bnxt_en: Clear resource reservation during resume
- f7dac96 qca_spi: Fix reset behavior
- 02296b1 qca_debug: Fix ethtool -G iface tx behavior
- 21b9dc8 qca_debug: Prevent crash on TX ring changes
- 92d813f net: ipv6: support reporting otherwise unknown prefix flags in RTM_NEWPREFIX
- 6cb39c7 net/mlx5: Fix a NULL vs IS_ERR() check
- ef3b2d5 net/mlx5e: Check netdev pointer before checking its net ns
- a483977 net/mlx5: Nack sync reset request when HotPlug is enabled
- b766f8b net/mlx5e: TC, Don't offload post action rule if not supported
- 8ce3d96 net/mlx5e: Fix possible deadlock on mlx5e_tx_timeout_work
- 7e46db5 net/mlx5e: Disable IPsec offload support if not FW steering
- fdd350f RDMA/mlx5: Send events from IB driver about device affiliation state
- 4a95f41 net/mlx5e: Check the number of elements before walk TC rhashtable
- 594a306 net/mlx5e: Reduce eswitch mode_lock protection context
- 1a0d0e9 net/mlx5e: Tidy up IPsec NAT-T SA discovery
- 20af7af net/mlx5e: Unify esw and normal IPsec status table creation/destruction
- 80299a1 net/mlx5e: Ensure that IPsec sequence packet number starts from 1
- 17e600e net/mlx5e: Honor user choice of IPsec replay window size
- b89b7c7 HID: lenovo: Restrict detection of patched firmware only to USB cptkbd
- 8715fe2 afs: Fix refcount underflow from error handling race
- 800f84d efi/x86: Avoid physical KASLR on older Dell systems
- 809d50d ksmbd: fix memory leak in smb2_lock()
- 73dddf9 ext4: fix warning in ext4_dio_write_end_io()
- da94fb0 r8152: add vendor/device ID pair for ASUS USB-C2500
