diff --git a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
index fd17097b56..20c13e6f60 100644
--- a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
+++ b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ FULL_OPTIMIZATION = "-Os"
 # Distro config is evaluated after the machine config, so we have to explicitly
 # set the kernel provider to override a machine config.
 PREFERRED_PROVIDER_virtual/kernel = "linux-yocto-tiny"
-PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-tiny ?= "6.10%"
+PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-tiny ?= "6.12%"
 
 # We can use packagegroup-core-boot, but in the future we may need a new packagegroup-core-tiny
 #POKY_DEFAULT_EXTRA_RDEPENDS += "packagegroup-core-boot"
diff --git a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
index b17bee5db5..eeaacd7b88 100644
--- a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
+++ b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky.conf
@@ -19,8 +19,8 @@ POKY_DEFAULT_EXTRA_RRECOMMENDS = "kernel-module-af-packet"
 
 DISTRO_FEATURES ?= "${DISTRO_FEATURES_DEFAULT} ${POKY_DEFAULT_DISTRO_FEATURES}"
 
-PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ?= "6.10%"
-PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-rt ?= "6.10%"
+PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ?= "6.12%"
+PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-rt ?= "6.12%"
 
 SDK_NAME = "${DISTRO}-${TCLIBC}-${SDKMACHINE}-${IMAGE_BASENAME}-${TUNE_PKGARCH}-${MACHINE}"
 SDKPATHINSTALL = "/opt/${DISTRO}/${SDK_VERSION}"