diff --git a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
index 1e32dd389c8..9d5a51660d6 100644
--- a/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
+++ b/meta-poky/conf/distro/poky-tiny.conf
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ 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 ?= "6.18%"
+PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-tiny ?= "7.2%"
 
 # 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 ff1c9a97b77..1096f6038ee 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 ?= "${POKY_DEFAULT_DISTRO_FEATURES}"
 
-PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ?= "6.18%"
-PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-rt ?= "6.18%"
+PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto ?= "7.2%"
+PREFERRED_VERSION_linux-yocto-rt ?= "7.2%"
 
 SDK_NAME = "${DISTRO}-${TCLIBC}-${SDKMACHINE}-${IMAGE_BASENAME}-${TUNE_PKGARCH}-${MACHINE}"
 SDKPATHINSTALL = "/opt/${DISTRO}/${SDK_VERSION}"