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The 6.7 kernel has been released (lwn.net)

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Some of the headline features in this release are: the removal of support for the Itanium architecture, the first part of the futex2 API, futex support in io_uring, the BPF exceptions mechanism, the bcachefs filesystem, the TCP authentication option, the kernel samepage merging smart scan mode, and networking support for the Landlock security module. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the (in-progress) KernelNewbies 6.7 page for more information.

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[-] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago

We are only two minor versions away from a very nice milestone.

[-] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago

Just to upset you, the next 2 versions are 6.8, and 9.0.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Linus is a coward

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Let's make a petition. Kernel version 6.9.420 must be free!

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

No way we switched to microsoft versioning :o

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

What happened to 7 and 8?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Same as Windows 9

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Seven is spending a very long time in jail for cannibalism.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

7 ate 9

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Those were skipped to upset you :D

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

6.8 to 9.0 would upset a lot of people

[-] [email protected] 34 points 2 years ago

6.6.6 was rad while it lasted.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Was very short on Arch :(

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

4.20 still feels like yesterday

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

69, interrupted with a period?

[-] [email protected] 32 points 2 years ago

This should allow nouveau to reclock NVIDIA 2xxx and newer GPUs. Huge step forward for open source NVIDIA drovers and I've been testing this on my laptop for a few weeks now woth the rc kernels and the NVK driver and it's pretty impressive so far.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I'm ready for my system to just work out of the box Nvidia's Drivers are a shit show.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Really looking forward to more bcachefs figures

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Bcachefs kek new filesystem noice

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