How do I get the newest lowlatency-kernel on 18.04 LTS?

Solution 1:

You need to install linux-lowlatency-hwe-18.04, as linux-lowlatency will always install the original version, 4.15, in this case.

apt-cache show linux-lowlatency-hwe-18.04 | grep Depends
Depends: linux-image-lowlatency-hwe-18.04 (= 4.18.0.18.68), linux-headers-lowlatency-hwe-18.04 (= 4.18.0.18.68)