The Oracle Linux team announces a new solution to benefit from the latest developments of the Linux kernel upstream and to try them via a kernel developed entirely by Oracle. This is UEK-next.
What are we talking about ? The UEK-next versions are Linux kernels upstream including Oracle Linux fixes.
What interest ?
They must allowevaluate new Linux features upstream, to experiment with the latest hardware support and to validate the compatibility of applications with the latest kernels.
UEK-next is not not supported for production use, but in the form of limited testing and development support to help validate applications and workloads. The sources for uek-next can be found on Github.
The story behind UEK-next
Oracle has developed a system called Linux Upstream Continuous Integration, or LUCI, to manage our Linux kernel patches. All patches integrated into the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) by Oracle must be added to the LUCI system and continually integrated and validated against the latest versions of the upstream Linux kernel.
LUCI serves as an early warning system for conflicts between these patches and the upstream Linux kernel, and encourages developers to pay attention to upstream kernel development, in addition to customer- or product-specific development on which they may to work.
UEK-next roadmap
The publisher plans to release a new version of UEK-next a few weeks after the release of each new kernel upstream, in the form of Source, binaries and public git repositories.
Starting with Linux kernel 6.8, Oracle will release UEK-next in a channel yum for developers to enable developers and end users to easily experiment with the latest upstream Linux kernels on an Oracle Linux 9 system.
You will find UEK-next on the Oracle Linux 9 yum repositories. You can also go through a virtual machine environment, using Oracle Linux VirtualBox images or a VM with UTM or QEMU.
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