Why isn't there a recent kernel update for Fedora 37?

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I used to have kernel update quite often, at least once a week. However, I haven’t seen kernel update for quite some weeks. Current kernel on my machine is Linux fedora 6.1.7-200.fc37.x86_64. I am wondering if something is wrong with my system that prevent me from updating kernel. However, I do get updates of other packages.

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Try dnf update refresh

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Thanks!, but I got:
No match for argument: refresh
Error: No packages marked for upgrade.

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There is a newer kernel, but it is still in testing, likely due to major version upgrade:
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/?packages=kernel&release=f37

You can help with testing as explained here:

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Latest F37 kernel I have running is 6.1.18.
Are you sure you have not set something to ignore kernel updates.
Check /etc/dnf/dnf.conf to see if there is something there to ignore/exclude it.

And that should have been sudo dnf upgrade --refresh

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Fedora 37 - x86_64 - Updates 70 kB/s | 22 kB 00:00
Last metadata expiration check: 0:00:02 ago on Mon 20 Mar 2023 03:18:55 PM ADT.
Dependencies resolved.
Nothing to do.
Complete!
[zpm@fedora ~]$ uname -a
Linux fedora 6.1.7-200.fc37.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Wed Jan 18 17:11:49 UTC 2023 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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That’s in my dnf.conf:
[main]
gpgcheck=1
installonly_limit=3
#clean_requirements_on_remove=True
clean_requirements_on_remove=False
best=False
skip_if_unavailable=True

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Check the output:

dnf repolist; dnf -q --refresh list kernel\*
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sudo dnf repolist:

repo id repo name
Atom Atom Editor
Dropbox Dropbox Repository
code Visual Studio Code
fedora Fedora 37 - x86_64
fedora-cisco-openh264 Fedora 37 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64
fedora-modular Fedora Modular 37 - x86_64
google-chrome google-chrome
phracek-PyCharm Copr repo for PyCharm owned by phracek
rpmfusion-free RPM Fusion for Fedora 37 - Free
rpmfusion-free-tainted RPM Fusion for Fedora 37 - Free tainted
rpmfusion-free-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 37 - Free - Updates
rpmfusion-nonfree RPM Fusion for Fedora 37 - Nonfree
rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver RPM Fusion for Fedora 37 - Nonfree - NVIDIA Driver
rpmfusion-nonfree-steam RPM Fusion for Fedora 37 - Nonfree - Steam
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates RPM Fusion for Fedora 37 - Nonfree - Updates
slack slack
teams teams
updates Fedora 37 - x86_64 - Updates
updates-modular Fedora Modular 37 - x86_64 - Updates

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sudo dnf -q --refresh list kernel*
Installed Packages
kernel-headers.x86_64 6.1.5-200.fc37 @updates
kernel-srpm-macros.noarch 1.0-15.fc37 @fedora
Available Packages
kernel.x86_64 6.1.18-200.fc37 updates
kernel-core.x86_64 6.1.18-200.fc37 updates
kernel-cross-headers.x86_64 6.1.5-200.fc37 updates
kernel-debug.x86_64 6.1.18-200.fc37 updates
kernel-debug-core.x86_64 6.1.18-200.fc37 updates
kernel-debug-devel.x86_64 6.1.18-200.fc37 updates
kernel-debug-devel-matched.x86_64 6.1.18-200.fc37 updates
kernel-debug-modules.x86_64 6.1.18-200.fc37 updates
kernel-debug-modules-extra.x86_64 6.1.18-200.fc37 updates
kernel-debug-modules-internal.x86_64 6.1.18-200.fc37 updates
kernel-devel.x86_64 6.1.18-200.fc37 updates
kernel-devel-matched.x86_64 6.1.18-200.fc37 updates
kernel-doc.noarch 6.1.18-200.fc37 updates
kernel-headers.i686 6.0.5-300.fc37 fedora
kernel-modules.x86_64 6.1.18-200.fc37 updates
kernel-modules-extra.x86_64 6.1.18-200.fc37 updates
kernel-modules-internal.x86_64 6.1.18-200.fc37 updates
kernel-rpm-macros.noarch 205-15.fc37 fedora
kernel-tools.x86_64 6.1.5-200.fc37 updates
kernel-tools-libs.x86_64 6.1.5-200.fc37 updates
kernel-tools-libs-devel.x86_64 6.1.5-200.fc37 updates
kernelshark.x86_64 1:2.1.0-2.fc37

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The kernel packages are not installed for some reason:

sudo dnf install kernel kernel-core
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Thanks! You nailed it.

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