Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the fourth release candidate for Linux Kernel 6.17, with no significant issues identified. The release primarily includes brief updates and minor modifications, featuring a significant enhancement to the Intel IDPF network driver along with updates to arm64 KVM system register handling.
Linux kernel 5.4.297 has been released.
Linux kernel 6.12.44 has been released.
Linux kernel 6.1.149 has been released.
Linux kernel 6.6.103 has been released.
Linux kernel 5.15.190 has been released.
Linux kernel 5.10.241 has been released.
Linux kernel 6.16.4 has been released.
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the third release candidate for Linux kernel 6.17, which is larger than the second release candidate but still within normal parameters. The release includes a mix of driver updates, added self-tests, Rust support, and various fixes in areas such as architecture code, filesystems, VM, and networking. Overall, the release seems to be on track, with no major issues standing out, and testers are encouraged to continue their work.
Linux kernel 6.16.3 has been released. The Linux kernel has been enhanced to accommodate large folios, facilitating more efficient processing of extents. The semantics of reserving credits in pages are now obsolete; instead, credits are reserved in extents. The folio writeback process has the capability to either extend journal credits or initiate a new transaction in the event that the currently reserved journal credits are inadequate. To tackle this issue, the folio writeback process can be adjusted to allocate credits for only one extent initially. The current tracepoints do not adequately capture the writeback position and the return value prior to and following the submission of the folios. Submitting a sufficiently large and discontinuous folio may utilize a substantial amount of journal credits, thereby imposing considerable pressure on the journal. The ext4_write_extent() function, which writes back a large and non-contiguous folio, may also encounter this issue. The ext4_write_extent() function has been updated and is now accessible in the ext4_write_extent() package.
Linux kernel 6.15.11 has been released.
Linux kernel 6.16.2 has been released.
Linux kernel 6.12.43 has been released.
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the second release candidate for Linux kernel 6.17, representing one of the more modest RC2 releases in recent history. The release encompasses updates to drivers, focusing on block, GPU, networking, and sound, along with several enhancements for SCSI and FireWire. Other changes include filesystems, core networking, and architecture fixes, mainly x86. Additionally, minor adjustments and a brief log have been incorporated.
The kernel has been updated with fixes for various issues, such as printing RSS for tiler heap BO's in debugfs GEMS file, removing transitional headers, normalizing volume kcontrol names, and fixing iteration bugs in __qgroup_excl_accounting(). Other changes include fixing the race between collapse and PT_RECLAIM under per-vma lock, removing the bouncing T7XX reviewer and kprobes maintainer, and fixing CIFS to handle any iterator type. The release also incorporates enhancements for the Intel WWAN IOSM driver, Intel PTP DFL ToD, addressing the T7XX reviewer, and the kprobes maintainer.
The kernel has been updated with fixes for various issues, such as printing RSS for tiler heap BO's in debugfs GEMS file, removing transitional headers, normalizing volume kcontrol names, and fixing iteration bugs in __qgroup_excl_accounting(). Other changes include fixing the race between collapse and PT_RECLAIM under per-vma lock, removing the bouncing T7XX reviewer and kprobes maintainer, and fixing CIFS to handle any iterator type. The release also incorporates enhancements for the Intel WWAN IOSM driver, Intel PTP DFL ToD, addressing the T7XX reviewer, and the kprobes maintainer.
Linux kernel 6.16.1 has been released.
Linux kernel 6.1.148 has been released.
Linux kernel 6.6.102 has been released.
Linux kernel 6.12.42 has been released
Linux kernel 6.15.10 has been released
Linus Torvalds has announced the release of the first release candidate for Linux kernel 6.17
The kernel encompasses a range of updates, including enhancements to VFIO, s390, i3c, RTC, bpf, gfs2, MM, EFI, gpio, power sequencing, remoteproc, PCI, EDAC, x86 CPU mitigation, x86 microcode loader, x86 SEV, as well as various fixes related to locking, irq, smp, xfs, zonefs, ata, module, driver core, drm, jfs, btrfs, input, CRC, crypto library, fscrypt, ipe, erofs, m68k, char/misc, IIO/other driver updates, staging, tty/serial driver updates, USB/Thunderbolt, TTY fix, hwmon, parisc, fbdev, crypto, libnvdimm, f2fs, tpm, rdma, iommufd, mailbox, io_uring, block, HID, sysctl, GNSS, uml, apparmor, sh, and xen.
