The 6.8 kernel has been released
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The 6.8 kernel has been released [LWN.net]
The 6.8 kernel has been released
So it took a bit longer for the commit counts to come down this release than I tend to prefer, but a lot of that seemed to be about various selftest updates (networking in particular) rather than any actual real sign of problems. And the last two weeks have been pretty quiet, so I feel there's no real reason to delay 6.8.
Significant changes in this release include the deadline servers scheduling feature, support for memory-management auto-tuning in DAMON, the large anonymous folios feature, the kernel samepage merging advisor, the ability to prevent writes to block devices containing mounted filesystems, the listmount() and statmount() system calls, the first device driver written in Rust, the removal of the (never finished) bpfilter packet-filtering system, three new system calls for managing Linux security modules, the BPF token mechanism for fine-grained control over BPF permissions, support for data-type profiling in the perf tool, guest-first memory for KVM virtualization, the Intel Xe graphics driver, and a lot more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) for more information.
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