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Linux Kernel 5.18 Upgrade: Moving To C11 For Enhanced Security Features

Mar 02, 2022 •

Anthony Pell

1 min read

Topics Covered

security improvement linux update linux kernel c11 standard software modernization

Old one out-of-date, but this one goes to 11.

Linus Torvalds is about to shift Linux from a version of C which is so old it was written before the fall of the Soviet Union – C89.

Torvalds has said that it is time to move to something more modern starting with kernel 5.18. Linux had planned to move to a newer standard eventually with C99 being the next version. However, a recent patch to a security problem revealed that there could be problems with C99.