{"id":34079,"date":"2021-06-28T16:55:46","date_gmt":"2021-06-28T16:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=34079"},"modified":"2021-06-28T16:55:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-28T16:55:46","slug":"linux-kernel-5-13-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/06\/linux-kernel-5-13-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux Kernel 5.13 Released! How to Install in Ubuntu 21.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/tux-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-34080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/tux-icon.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/tux-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Linux Kernel 5.13 was officially released. Linus Torvalds wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/lkml.org\/lkml\/2021\/6\/27\/202\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lkml<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>So we had quite the calm week since rc7, and I see no reason to delay 5.13. The shortlog for the week is tiny, with just 88 non-merge commits (and a few of those are just reverts). It&#8217;s a fairly random mix of fixes, and being so small I&#8217;d just suggest people scan the appended shortlog for what happened.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kernel 5.13 features include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Initial and early support for Apple M1. <\/li>\n<li>New &#8220;Landlock&#8221; Linux security module.<\/li>\n<li>Initial graphics support for Alder Lake S.<\/li>\n<li>AMD FreeSync HDMI support.<\/li>\n<li>New Intel cooling driver <\/li>\n<li>Realtek RTL8156 and RTL8153D support<\/li>\n<li>New drivers support for Amazon\u2019s Luna game controller.<\/li>\n<li>Touchpad &#038; keyboard support for recent Microsoft Surface laptops.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to Install Linux Kernel 5.13:<\/h3>\n<p>The Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Archive provides the new kernel packages via DEB files.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arconix-box arconix-box-red\"><i class='fa fa-2x pull-left fa-exclamation-triangle'><\/i><div class=\"arconix-box-content\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.ubuntu.com\/Kernel\/MainlineBuilds\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mainline build kernels<\/a> do not include any Ubuntu-provided drivers or patches. They are not supported and are not appropriate for production use.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s &#8220;incorrectly&#8221; built with updated libc6 library required. So it WILL NOT install on Ubuntu 20.10, Ubuntu 20.04 and earlier.<\/div><\/div>\n<p>For those prefer using a graphical tool, see <a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/08\/mainline-install-latest-kernel-ubuntu-linux-mint\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">this tool<\/a> to install the latest Kernel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/umki-k513.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/umki-k513-600x473.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"473\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-34082\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/umki-k513-600x473.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/umki-k513-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/umki-k513-768x606.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/umki-k513.jpg 846w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To manually download the mainline kernel packages for Linux 5.13, go to the link button:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='https:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v5.13\/' class='arconix-button-flat arconix-button-large arconix-button-tan' target=\"_blank\" >Download Kernel 5.13<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Select <code>generic<\/code> for common system, and <code>lowlatency<\/code> for a low latency system (e.g. for recording audio):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>linux-headers-5.13.0-xxxxxx_all.deb<\/li>\n<li>linux-headers-5.13.0-xxx-generic(\/lowlatency)_xxx_amd64.deb<\/li>\n<li>linux-modules-5.13.0-xxx-generic(\/lowlatency)_xxx_amd64.deb<\/li>\n<li>linux-image-xxx-5.13.0-xxx-generic(\/lowlatency)_xxx_amd64.deb<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Alternatively you can download and install the kernel binaries via terminal commands ( open terminal via <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b>):<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">cd \/tmp\/\r\n\r\nwget -c https:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v5.13\/amd64\/linux-headers-5.13.0-051300_5.13.0-051300.202106272333_all.deb\r\n\r\nwget -c https:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v5.13\/amd64\/linux-headers-5.13.0-051300-generic_5.13.0-051300.202106272333_amd64.deb\r\n\r\nwget -c https:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v5.13\/amd64\/linux-image-unsigned-5.13.0-051300-generic_5.13.0-051300.202106272333_amd64.deb\r\n\r\nwget -c https:\/\/kernel.ubuntu.com\/~kernel-ppa\/mainline\/v5.13\/amd64\/linux-modules-5.13.0-051300-generic_5.13.0-051300.202106272333_amd64.deb\r\n\r\nsudo dpkg -i *.deb<\/pre>\n<p>Once installed, restart your computer and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><b>Uninstall Linux Kernel 5.13:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Restart your machine and select boot with the previous kernel in boot menu \u2018Grub2 -> Advanced Option for Ubuntu\u2019. Then run command to remove Linux Kernel 5.13:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo dpkg --purge linux-image-unsigned-5.13.0-051300-generic<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux Kernel 5.13 was officially released. Linus Torvalds wrote on lkml: So we had quite the calm week since rc7, and I see no reason to delay 5.13. The shortlog for the week is tiny, with just 88 non-merge commits (and a few of those are just reverts). It&#8217;s a fairly random mix of fixes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[160],"class_list":["post-34079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-kernel"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}