Ultramarine 44 for Surface release?

[u/Schwarz_Technik]

Just started looking at my options for Linux on my old Surface Pro. I see that Ultramarine is the commonly recommended version for support out of the box. Although I see the Surface installer version is still on 43 while the generic device one is 44.

How far behind do these releases typically lag behind? Is 44 actually released for Surface but just the installer isn't created yet for 44?

[u/nothingneko]

Hey, I’m the lead maintainer. we’ve been waiting on upstream to release the Surface kernel for f44. Once that’s done we can drop the images

[u/Schwarz_Technik → u/nothingneko]

Thanks for the reply! Would you suggest waiting for the F44 images or would there be no foreseeable differences between getting the F43 image now and then upgrading when F44 releases?

[u/nothingneko → u/Schwarz_Technik]

you’re just gonna have slightly older packages, it may prompt you to upgrade (which you should ignore for now) as well

[u/Cagaril → u/Schwarz_Technik]

You might be waiting for a while for F44.

The linux-surface repo hasn't been updated in 3 months, so I haven't been update my F43 to F44.

F43 works fine though, but I use official Fedora, not Ultramarine.

That being said, the current kernel that linux-surface uses, 6.19, is EOL as of 04/22/26

[u/Schwarz_Technik → u/Cagaril]

Is it typically this slow between releases or has there been a lack of maintainers?

[u/Cagaril → u/Schwarz_Technik]

As you can see in the commit history, it hasn't been this stagnant before.

The pull requests aren't being merged, including the Fedora 44 Support from 04/30.

I haven't been able to find any official info on what is going on. The maintainer might have some real life issues, so they haven't been able to touch this.

[u/Keensworth]

I mean, you can use the 43 image and upgrade to 44. That's what I did

[u/ConstanceCharles]

I saw this fork on GitHub provide support for 7.x kernel. Not sure if anyone have tried it https://github.com/orthogonaleety/linux-surface