• The 6.12 kernel has been released

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Sun Nov 17 22:45:05 2024
    The 6.12 kernel has been released

    Date:
    Sun, 17 Nov 2024 22:33:02 +0000

    Description:
    Linus has released the 6.12 kernel .
    " No strange surprises this last week, so we're sticking to the regular
    release schedule, and that obviously means that the merge window opens tomorrow. ". Headline features in this release include:

    support for the Arm
    permission overlay extension,
    better compile-time control over which Spectre mitigations to employ,
    the last pieces of realtime preemption support ,
    the realtime deadline server mechanism,
    more EEVDF scheduler development,
    the extensible scheduler class ,
    the device memory TCP work, use of static calls in the security-module subsystem,
    the integrity
    policy enforcement security module,
    the ability to handle devices with a block size larger than the system page size in the XFS filesystem,
    and more.
    See the LWN merge-window summaries
    ( part1 , part2 ) and the KernelNewbies 6.12 page for
    more details.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/997958/


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