QubesOS v4.3 is new Kernel?

[erickonix]

I thought that QubesOS v4.3 is Kernel version 7?

[balder86]

Nah, you get 6.18
If you want 7, you need to have the qube run its own kernel.

But, 7 is just a bigger number.
Imho nothing special so far in 7

[rustybird]

The kernel-latest(-qubes-vm) dom0 packages are currently at v6.19 and will probably be bumped up to v7.0 soon. But as @balder86 said, the kernel’s major version number isn’t important according to Linus Torvalds:

We have a new major number purely because I’m easily confused and not good with big numbers.

We haven’t done releases based on features (or on “stable vs unstable”) for a long long time now. So that new major number does *not* mean that we have some big new exciting feature, or that we’re somehow leaving old interfaces behind. It’s the usual “solid progress” marker, nothing more.