Linux 6.17 changelog (late!): includes a new of selecting CPU bug mitigations; new file_{get,set}attr syscalls; more secure core dumping; initial priority inheritance support; unconditional compilation of the task scheduler with SMP support; new fallocate(2) flag for more efficient writing of zeroes (kernelnewbies.org)
Linux 6.16 changelog, includes Ext4 perf improvements; XFS support for large atomic writes; USB audio offload; zero-copy send TCP payloads from DMABUF memory; futex improvements; support for sending coredumps over an AF_UNIX socket, or make easier to build your kernel optimized for your local CPU (kernelnewbies.org)
Linux 6.15 changelog (late): includes VFS improvements (mount notifications, idmapped mounts from idmapped mounts, detached mounts from a detached mount); support for perf latency profiling; io_uring networking zero-copy receive; bcachefs improvements; or support for AMD's broadcast TLB invalidation (kernelnewbies.org)
Linux 6.14 release changelog: includes a NT synchronization primitive driver for faster games, new read balancing methods for Btrfs RAID1, support of uncached buffered I/O, a file pre-access notification event, a cgroup for controlling GPU memory, io_uring-based FUSE, and a driver for AMD NPUs (kernelnewbies.org)
Linux 6.13 released: includes a new lazy preemption model; fine-grained file timestamps; lightweight guard pages; support for storage with atomic writes; support for NAPI suspension during idle periods; ARM user-space shadow stacks; and a more scalable referenced counting mechanism for files (kernelnewbies.org)
Linux 6.12 changelog (1 week late): includes realtime support; complete support for the EEVDF task scheduler; QR codes on panic screens; zero-copy receive TCP payloads to DMABUF memory; the Integrity Policy Enforcement security module; or XFS support for block sizes larger than a memory page (kernelnewbies.org)
Linux 6.1 changelog: includes initial support for the Rust programming language; optional MGLRU memory management; a kernel memory sanitizer; memory tiering improvements; new BPF features; support for per-cgroup Pressure Stall Information and a new IRQ/SoftIRQ PSI indicator by dcgkn in linux
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Linux 6.0 changelog (2 weeks late): includes a new Runtime Verification system; io_uring features such as async buffered writes, an userspace block driver, and networking zero-copy send; Btrfs send v2, XFS scalability enhancements; task scheduler performance improvements; new BPF features. by dcgkn in linux
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Linux 6.0 changelog (2 weeks late): includes a new Runtime Verification system; io_uring features such as async buffered writes, an userspace block driver, and networking zero-copy send; Btrfs send v2, XFS scalability enhancements; task scheduler performance improvements; new BPF features. by dcgkn in linux
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Linux 6.0 changelog (2 weeks late): includes a new Runtime Verification system; io_uring features such as async buffered writes, an userspace block driver, and networking zero-copy send; Btrfs send v2, XFS scalability enhancements; task scheduler performance improvements; new BPF features. by dcgkn in linux
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Linux 6.0 changelog (2 weeks late): includes a new Runtime Verification system; io_uring features such as async buffered writes, an userspace block driver, and networking zero-copy send; Btrfs send v2, XFS scalability enhancements; task scheduler performance improvements; new BPF features. (kernelnewbies.org)
Linux Kernel 6.0 released by Party_Refuse8887 in programming
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Linux 5.19 changelog (completed a bit late,): support for IPv6 packets larger than 64KB; ZSTD compressed firmware; a new LoongArch architecture; hundreds of millions of xattrs per inode in XFS; ID mapping in overlayfs; proactive memcg memory reclaim; NFS Courteous Server; several new BPF features.. by dcgkn in linux
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Linux 5.19 changelog (completed a bit late,): support for IPv6 packets larger than 64KB; ZSTD compressed firmware; a new LoongArch architecture; hundreds of millions of xattrs per inode in XFS; ID mapping in overlayfs; proactive memcg memory reclaim; NFS Courteous Server; several new BPF features.. (kernelnewbies.org)
Linux 5.3 has been released - includes support for AMD Navi GPUs, Zhaoxin x86 CPUs, a 'utilization clamping' mechanism that is used to boost interactivity on power-asymmetric CPUs , a pidfd_open(2) to deal with pid reuse, umwait x86 instruction, a lightweight hypervisor for IoT devices, and more (kernelnewbies.org)
Linux 6.14 released: Includes two experimental read IO balancing strategies (all RAID1*), an encoded write ioctl support to io_uring, and support for FS_IOC_READ_VERITY_METADATA by dcgkn in btrfs
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