diff --git a/board/beagleboard/beagleboneai64/patches/linux/linux.hash b/board/beagleboard/beagleboneai64/patches/linux/linux.hash
index 7fbb81d7e3..eb4dcee958 100644
--- a/board/beagleboard/beagleboneai64/patches/linux/linux.hash
+++ b/board/beagleboard/beagleboneai64/patches/linux/linux.hash
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 # From https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/sha256sums.asc
-sha256  9b4ccec7d8ceff4824f149e476ec06e83c86546ae8af82582871647809a62ef0  linux-6.12.70.tar.xz
+sha256  4f21c01f4d04c1d1b3ed794153f8900802c92497be620b07c4869530f2d28ee3  linux-6.18.16.tar.xz
diff --git a/configs/beagleboneai64_defconfig b/configs/beagleboneai64_defconfig
index 5e0adc0dc2..b41ea09f3e 100644
--- a/configs/beagleboneai64_defconfig
+++ b/configs/beagleboneai64_defconfig
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT="support/scripts/genimage.sh"
 BR2_ROOTFS_POST_SCRIPT_ARGS="-c board/beagleboard/beagleboneai64/genimage.cfg"
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION=y
-BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="6.12.70"
+BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_CUSTOM_VERSION_VALUE="6.18.16"
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_USE_ARCH_DEFAULT_CONFIG=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_DTS_SUPPORT=y
 BR2_LINUX_KERNEL_INTREE_DTS_NAME="ti/k3-j721e-beagleboneai64"