{"id":3346,"date":"2025-07-27T16:28:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T23:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2025-07-27T16:28:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T23:28:52","slug":"kernel-6-16-released-no-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3346","title":{"rendered":"Kernel &#8211; 6.16 Released, No Surprises.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel <strong>6.16<\/strong> is out, and brief details are here:\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2507.3\/03799.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2507.3\/03799.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As expected, the latest NVIDIA driver <strong>575.64.05<\/strong> compiles\/installs OK, but VMware <strong>17.6.4<\/strong> still needs the 6.15 plus 6.16 patches, the same as 17.6.3..<\/p>\n<p>Only (minor) issue so far is the font resize after boot (needed for 4k screens) is not working, for some reason..<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 July 27th 2025..<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kernel 6.16 is out, and brief details are here:\u00a0\u00a0 https:\/\/lkml.iu.edu\/hypermail\/linux\/kernel\/2507.3\/03799.html As expected, the latest NVIDIA driver 575.64.05 compiles\/installs OK, but VMware 17.6.4 still needs the 6.15 plus 6.16 patches, the same as 17.6.3.. Only (minor) issue so far is the font resize after boot (needed for 4k screens) is not working, for some reason.. Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0\u00a0 July <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3346\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11,14,15,18,19,25],"tags":[2761,2759,2758,2760,1663],"class_list":["post-3346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-hacks","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","category-vmware","tag-17-6-4","tag-575-64-05","tag-kernel-6-16","tag-latest-vmware-still-needs-patches","tag-ok-with-latest-nvidia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3347,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions\/3347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}