• The 7.1 kernel has been released

    From LWN.net@618:250/24 to All on Mon Jun 15 06:40:09 2026
    Linus has released the 7.1 kernel.
    "So it's only Sunday morning back home, but it's Sunday afternoon where
    I am right now, so I'm doing the 7.1 release at the regular time -
    just not in the regular timezone."

    Significant changes in 7.1 include
    the removal of support for some old 486-based architectures,
    some new clone() flags making
    process management easier,
    BPF support for io_uring,
    zero-copy-I/O support for the ublk user-space block
    driver,
    initial (incomplete) sub-scheduler support
    in sched_ext,
    more swapping improvements,
    a completely rewritten NTFS
    implementation,
    and much more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) for details.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1077758/
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