Linux Kernel 5.1 has been released. How to install Kernel in Ubuntu Linux Systems; update Kernel 5.1 on Ubuntu Systems. The new Kernel brings various changes and improvements. It also brings various security and networking fixes and improvements.
Linux 5.1 has been released with new features and improvements. Phoronix writes Linux 5.1 brings many exciting changes like a new I/O interface, Habana Labs Goya AI processor support, new ACPI support, a lot of new hardware support, and more. See our Linux 5.1 feature overview for a complete overview. The Linux 5.1 codename remains the same as recent kernel releases, the “Shy Crocodile” with Torvalds seeming to have lost interest in his codename fun.
Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux Kernel 5.1. He writes:
“So it’s a bit later in the day than I usually do this, just because I was waffling about the release. Partly because I got some small pull requests today, but mostly just because I wasn’t looking forward to the timing of this upcoming 5.2 merge window.
But the last-minute pull requests really weren’t big enough to justify delaying things over, and hopefully the merge window timing won’t be all that painful either. I just happen to have the college graduation of my oldest happen right smack dab in the middle of the upcoming merge window, so I might be effectively offline for a few days there. If worst comes to worst, I’ll extend it to make it all work, but I don’t think it will be needed.
Anyway, on to 5.1 itself. The past week has been pretty calm, and the final patch from rc6 is not all that big. The shortlog is appended, but it’s small changes all over. Networking, filesystem code, drivers, tooling, arch updates. Nothing particularly odd stands out.
Of course, the shortlog below is just for that final calm week. On the whole, 5.1 looks very normal with just over 13k commits (plus another
1k+ if you count merges). Which is pretty much our normal size these days. No way to boil that down to a sane shortlog, with work all over.
Go out and test.”
Install Kernel 5 on 64 Bit Systems
Run the following commands in terminal to install Kernel 5 on 64 Bit Systems – Build for amd64 succeeded (see BUILD.LOG.amd64):
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get update
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.1/linux-headers-5.1.0-050100_5.1.0-050100.201905052130_all.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.1/linux-headers-5.1.0-050100-generic_5.1.0-050100.201905052130_amd64.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.1/linux-headers-5.1.0-050100-lowlatency_5.1.0-050100.201905052130_amd64.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.1/linux-image-unsigned-5.1.0-050100-generic_5.1.0-050100.201905052130_amd64.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.1/linux-image-unsigned-5.1.0-050100-lowlatency_5.1.0-050100.201905052130_amd64.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.1/linux-image-5.1.0-050100-generic-lpae_5.1.0-050100.201905052130_armhf.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.1/linux-image-5.1.0-050100-generic_5.1.0-050100.201905052130_armhf.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Install Kernel 5 on 32 Bit Systems
Run the following commands in terminal to install Kernel 5 on 64 Bit Systems – Build for i386 succeeded (see BUILD.LOG.i386):
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get update
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.1/linux-headers-5.1.0-050100_5.1.0-050100.201905052130_all.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.1/linux-headers-5.1.0-050100-generic_5.1.0-050100.201905052130_i386.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.1/linux-headers-5.1.0-050100-lowlatency_5.1.0-050100.201905052130_i386.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.1/linux-image-5.1.0-050100-generic_5.1.0-050100.201905052130_i386.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.1/linux-image-5.1.0-050100-lowlatency_5.1.0-050100.201905052130_i386.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.1/linux-image-5.1.0-050100-generic_5.1.0-050100.201905052130_i386.deb
wget https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.1/linux-image-5.1.0-050100-lowlatency_5.1.0-050100.201905052130_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb