Why Doesnt the 6.18 Kernel have the LTS flag when it is LTS according to the Archive

[soundofthunder]

Kernel 6.18 (LTS) was officially released on 2025-11-30.

@soundofthunder

This type of question arises from time to time when an LTS kernel isn’t displayed as such in the Manjaro Settings Manager (MSM).

MSM typically isn’t updated to coincide with the release of a new LTS kernel and it can take a while for the “LTS” description to be updated in MSM.

@Aragorn

marking a kernel as LTS in the manjaro-settings-manager requires an update to the manjaro-settings-manager itself. It’s just because of the ad hoc way the software was written.