After the release of Linux 5.19, whether the next version will be called Linux 5.20 or Linux 6.0, Linus Torvalds, who is often confused by big numbers, said that the next version will be called 6.0. This is similar to how Linux 3.19's next release was Linux 4.0 and before Linux 4.19's next release was Linux 5.0. According to the kernel mailing list pull request , Linux 6.0 is almost universally accepted. According to these pull requests, new changes in Linux 6.0 will include: improved NUMA balancing on AMD Zen systems, more efficient CPU idle search under high system load, removal of DECnet networking code, and more.
