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.
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 43•9 months ago
We are only two minor versions away from a very nice milestone.
- survivalmachine ( @survivalmachine@beehaw.org ) 35•9 months ago
6.6.6 was rad while it lasted.
- unique_hemp ( @unique_hemp@discuss.tchncs.de ) 12•9 months ago
Was very short on Arch :(
- CameronDev ( @CameronDev@programming.dev ) 34•9 months ago
Just to upset you, the next 2 versions are 6.8, and 9.0.
- bionicjoey ( @bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ) 14•9 months ago
Linus is a coward
- itslilith ( @itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 8•9 months ago
What happened to 7 and 8?
- jorge ( @jalda@sopuli.xyz ) English5•9 months ago
Same as Windows 9
- caseyweederman ( @caseyweederman@lemmy.ca ) 4•9 months ago
Seven is spending a very long time in jail for cannibalism.
- CameronDev ( @CameronDev@programming.dev ) 3•9 months ago
Those were skipped to upset you :D
- NuclearDolphin ( @NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml ) 2•9 months ago
7 ate 9
- ryannathans ( @ryannathans@aussie.zone ) 2•9 months ago
6.8 to 9.0 would upset a lot of people
- anothermember ( @anothermember@beehaw.org ) 12•9 months ago
4.20 still feels like yesterday
- CalcProgrammer1 ( @CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml ) 28•9 months 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.
- Azzy ( @AzzyDev@beehaw.org ) 1•9 months ago
Isn’t nouveau basically dead (AFAIK)? I thought most work being done on the open-source end for NVIDIA GPUs was on the new Vulkan driver?
- Laser ( @Laser@feddit.de ) 2•9 months ago
Really looking forward to more bcachefs figures
- Kristof12 ( @Kristof12@lemmy.ml ) 1•9 months ago
Bcachefs kek new filesystem noice