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The exFAT Linux driver for Linux 7.0 merges multi-cluster support to boost sequential read performance by about 10% (notably with small 512-byte clusters) and reduces overhead by caching FAT entries and optimizing error handling, with further improvements to reduce sb_bread() calls.
Linus Torvalds officially names the next kernel Linux 7.0 after 6.19; the 7.0 merge window will last about two weeks with a mid-April stable release, and the update is set to coincide with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and bring a slate of changes.
Linux 7.0 is preparing improvements to inline C helpers into Rust during LTO kernel builds, involving new annotations and patches to enhance support for Rust and LLVM/Clang's LTO capabilities, with potential performance benefits.
Linux 7.0 (or 6.20) will remove support for AMD's NPU2, a neural processing unit that was never released in any product, to reduce maintenance costs in the open-source driver.
Canonical has confirmed that Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, scheduled for release in April, will feature Linux kernel 6.20, which may be rebranded as Linux 7.0 depending on Linus Torvalds' versioning decisions, continuing their strategy of shipping Ubuntu with the latest upstream kernels.