With the end of the year quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most-viewed Linux kernel news of 2025.

This year brought a lot more Rust code to the Linux kernel, Linus Torvalds continuing to make sound decisions around kernel happenings, from handheld gaming devices to hyperscaler servers there continues to be immense activity each merge window, Bcachefs was dropped from the kernel this year, and the overall Linux kernel development community continues to be healthy and move in a steadfast manner.