Linux Kernel 6.14 was released yesterday on Monday! Linus Torvalds announced it in lkml.org:
So it’s early Monday morning (well – early for me, I’m not really a morning person), and I’d love to have some good excuse for why I didn’t do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular Sunday afternoon release schedule.
I’d like to say that some important last-minute thing came up and delayed things.
The new Kernel added initial support for SpacemiT platforms, add T-Head Vector Extension support for RISC-V, and RISC-V KVM support now enables Zabha, Svvptc, and Ziccrse extension support for guests.
For Intel side, it introduced THC driver for dealing with touchscreen, touchpads, and similar functionality in modern Intel Laptops, initial Turbostat support for Intel Panther Lake and Clearwater Forest processors, and Intel Idle driver support for next-gen Clearwater Forest E-core server processors.
For AMD, the kernel added Secure TSC support, segmented RMP mode and support for Zen 5’s RMPREAD instruction, dynamic preferred core rankings, as well as AMD AE4DMA driver that can handle high-bandwidth memory-to-memory and I/O copy operations,
The new 6.14 kernel also completed NTSYNC driver, which introduced faster performance for playing Windows games in Linux, through Wine or Steam Play (Proton).
Other changes include Microsoft “Copilot” key support, ACPI updates with faster suspend and resume for some systems, such as Ubuntu on Dell XPS-13-9300, as well as new/updated hardware support:
- Support For Blaize BLZP1600, SpacemiT K1 & Snapdragon 8 Elite SoCs.
- Acer WMI driver supports the PH14-51, PH16-72, and Nitro AN515-58 laptops.
- AMD PMC driver now supports Family 1Ah Model 70h Zen 5 processors.
- Accelerometer support for the Dell Latitude E6330 and E6430 and Dell XPS 9550 laptop.
- Fan and thermal support for the HP Victus 16-s1000 gaming laptop.
- Support for the QH Electronics Controller.
- SteelSeries Arctis 9 wireless headset support.
- Allwinner Suinv F1C100s, Awinc AW88083, and Realtek ALC5682I-VE sound hardware support.
- Hardware monitoring support for ASUS TUF GAMING X670E PLUS and ASRock B650 Steel Legend WiFi motherboards.
- Manual fan control support for Dell XPS 9370.
- Intel E610, RTL8125D rev.b, RTL8922AE-VS chipset, and MT7922, MT7925, and MT7921e devices support.
How to Install Linux Kernel 6.14 in Ubuntu
Ubuntu Mainline Kernel PPA has built the new Kernel packages for amd64, arm64/armhf, ppc64el, and s390x platforms.
NOTE 1: The Mainline built Kernel packages are un-signed that may not work with secure boot, and, it lacks Ubuntu specific drivers.
NOTE 2: The Kernel package works in Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 24.10, while Ubuntu 25.04 will use 6.14 as default kernel.
To download the new Kernel .deb packages:
Select download all the .deb packages for your system type (run dpkg --print-architecture to tell). As time is going, it will release new point Kernel releases. In the case, go to this page and choose Kernel version.
Then, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to install:
sudo apt install ~/Downloads/linux-*6.14*.deb
Here it assumed that you saved all the packages in user Downloads folder. For choice, you may drag and drop all the packages into terminal instead of typing path to them.
Once installed, restart your computer and run uname -a command to verify the running Kernel version.
To install Kernel 6.14 from command line (e.g., for Ubuntu Server), run commands below one by one:
cd /tmp
wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/v6.14/amd64/linux-headers-6.14.0-061400-generic_6.14.0-061400.202503241442_amd64.deb
wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/v6.14/amd64/linux-headers-6.14.0-061400_6.14.0-061400.202503241442_all.deb
wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/v6.14/amd64/linux-image-unsigned-6.14.0-061400-generic_6.14.0-061400.202503241442_amd64.deb
wget -c https://kernel.ubuntu.com/mainline/v6.14/amd64/linux-modules-6.14.0-061400-generic_6.14.0-061400.202503241442_amd64.deb
sudo apt install ./*.deb
NOTE the commands above are for amd64 (Intel/AMD) only. For other platform, replace the URL links accordingly.
Uninstall Kernel 6.14
To uninstall the new Kernel, reboot your computer and choose to boot old Kernel from Grub boot-loader (usually under Advanced menu). Finally, run the command below in terminal to uninstall Kernel 6.14:
sudo apt remove linux-headers-6.14* linux-image-*-6.14* linux-modules-6.14*
