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Linux 6.17-rc1 has been released with numerous new features and improvements, but without updates to Bcachefs, which may be removed in the next cycle. The release includes support for new hardware, performance enhancements, and language additions, with a full overview to follow soon.
Linux 6.16-rc4 has been released with updates including Bcachefs changes and improved shader support for AMD GPUs, as Linux prepares for the stable release expected by the end of July, with Linus Torvalds noting ongoing testing and various improvements.
Linux 6.8-rc4 kernel is now available for testing, featuring fixes for Bcachefs, NTFS3 file-system, and Transmeta Crusoe booting issues. The release includes the usual driver and core networking fixes, with Linus Torvalds noting normal commit counts and contents for this phase of the release. Despite the Super Bowl, the kernel retains its stale codename "Hurr durr I'ma ninja sloth".
Bcachefs, a new file-system merged in Linux 6.7, has had a secondary set of updates merged just before the release of Linux 6.8-rc1, including performance enhancements and preparations for a disk space accounting rewrite in a future kernel version. The updates also include changes for explicit context triggering, fixes for multi-threaded workloads, tracepoint improvements, and minor code enhancements.
Linux 6.7 has been released with over 17k non-merge commits, featuring initial support for Bcachefs file-system, stable Intel Meteor Lake graphics, initial NVIDIA GSP firmware support with the Nouveau driver, retirement of Intel Itanium support, and other new features.
The Linux 6.7 kernel is set to release with notable features including the Bcachefs file-system, stable support for Intel Meteor Lake graphics, NVIDIA GPU System Processor firmware support for improved power management and performance, the option to disable/enable x86 32-bit support at boot, and various scheduler and kernel optimizations. Additionally, support for Intel Itanium IA-64 has been retired. This kernel update is significant for upcoming Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu 24.04 LTS.
The Bcachefs file-system driver is unlikely to be merged for Linux 6.5, as tensions arise over code changes needed to the kernel outside of the module itself and heated discussions on the Linux kernel mailing list. The experimental file-system has been in development for years and has stable features, but it seems it will not be accepted this cycle.