Examples on RHEL 8, RHEL 9, and RHEL 10

Review typical RHEL kernel version strings on RHEL 8, RHEL 9, and RHEL 10.

The following table shows typical version-string shapes with examples. They are not a full list of what is backported into each release.

Table 1. Typical RHEL kernel version strings
RHEL major Example version string Upstream base in the string

RHEL 8

4.18.0-553.28.1.el8_10.x86_64

Linux 4.18

RHEL 9

5.14.0-503.23.1.el9_5.x86_64

Linux 5.14

RHEL 10

6.12.0-124.15.1.el10_1.x86_64

Linux 6.12

For example, a RHEL 10.1 system can report a 6.12 base in uname -r while individual subsystems include changes from much newer upstream kernel versions. The same backport model applies on RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 over their respective lifecycles.