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The Linux 7.2 source tree has surpassed 43 million lines of code. Discover how massive AMDGPU drivers and continuous updates fuel this rapid kernel growth.

#Linux #OpenSource #KernelDevelopment #Linux7 #Coding

https://meterpreter.org/linux-7-2-source-tree/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

The Linux 7.2 source tree has surpassed 43 million lines of code. Discover how massive AMDGPU drivers and continuous updates fuel this rapid kernel growth.

#Linux #OpenSource #KernelDevelopment #Linux7 #Coding

https://meterpreter.org/linux-7-2-source-tree/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Linux 7.2 RC1 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC1 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

So two weeks have passed, and the merge window is closed. Things look reasonably normal for this release (knock wood), and I'm appending my merge shortlog below, since we obviously have much to many changes to list individually.

The stats look pretty normal, although another AMD header drop means that a third of the patch is just various AMD GPU register definitions.

That's not unusual in itself, and if you ignore that part the rest looks pretty normal too: just over half the patch is drivers (even when _not_ counting that AMD register dump, other GPU driver changes show up, but we've got a little bit of everything in there), with the rest being the usual spread of architecture updates, tooling, documentation, and core kernel updates.

I'm going to take the next week mostly off, but I'm reading email and keeping up with things. But I hope it's going to be a fairly calm week. If I have longer latencies than usual, you'll know why.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC1 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC1 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

So two weeks have passed, and the merge window is closed. Things look reasonably normal for this release (knock wood), and I'm appending my merge shortlog below, since we obviously have much to many changes to list individually.

The stats look pretty normal, although another AMD header drop means that a third of the patch is just various AMD GPU register definitions.

That's not unusual in itself, and if you ignore that part the rest looks pretty normal too: just over half the patch is drivers (even when _not_ counting that AMD register dump, other GPU driver changes show up, but we've got a little bit of everything in there), with the rest being the usual spread of architecture updates, tooling, documentation, and core kernel updates.

I'm going to take the next week mostly off, but I'm reading email and keeping up with things. But I hope it's going to be a fairly calm week. If I have longer latencies than usual, you'll know why.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC1 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC1 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

So two weeks have passed, and the merge window is closed. Things look reasonably normal for this release (knock wood), and I'm appending my merge shortlog below, since we obviously have much to many changes to list individually.

The stats look pretty normal, although another AMD header drop means that a third of the patch is just various AMD GPU register definitions.

That's not unusual in itself, and if you ignore that part the rest looks pretty normal too: just over half the patch is drivers (even when _not_ counting that AMD register dump, other GPU driver changes show up, but we've got a little bit of everything in there), with the rest being the usual spread of architecture updates, tooling, documentation, and core kernel updates.

I'm going to take the next week mostly off, but I'm reading email and keeping up with things. But I hope it's going to be a fairly calm week. If I have longer latencies than usual, you'll know why.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC1 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC1 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

So two weeks have passed, and the merge window is closed. Things look reasonably normal for this release (knock wood), and I'm appending my merge shortlog below, since we obviously have much to many changes to list individually.

The stats look pretty normal, although another AMD header drop means that a third of the patch is just various AMD GPU register definitions.

That's not unusual in itself, and if you ignore that part the rest looks pretty normal too: just over half the patch is drivers (even when _not_ counting that AMD register dump, other GPU driver changes show up, but we've got a little bit of everything in there), with the rest being the usual spread of architecture updates, tooling, documentation, and core kernel updates.

I'm going to take the next week mostly off, but I'm reading email and keeping up with things. But I hope it's going to be a fairly calm week. If I have longer latencies than usual, you'll know why.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.2 RC1 released!

After the release of Linux 7.1, which brought many features and improvements across different portions of the Linux kernel, such as hardware support and other improvements, an upcoming version of Linux is in the works.

Linux 7.2 RC1 is now live for developers and power users who are willing to try out a pre-release version of Linux that is yet to be released. All the interesting changes from performance improvements to bug fixes have been integrated to this release candidate, including, but not limited to:

• PCIe devices should not inadvertently reduce its speed to 2.5 GT/s
• Improved performance for AMD EPYC Sorano
• Added support for Wacom W9000 pen-enabled touchscreen
• Dropped ancient PROFIBUS driver ported from SCO Unix
• Bug fixes and minor improvements made to NTFS3 driver
• Startup overhead has been reduced for RISC-V
• USB4STREAM has been added to quickly send data between USB4 connected devices
• Preparations for NVIDIA Blackwell-Next devices
• Networking improvements and support for Wi-Fi 8 (UHR)
• Apple M3 systems can now boot to Linux 7.2
• AppleTalk protocol support has been dropped
• Various bug fixes and general improvements

The below announcement from Linus Torvalds in the mailing list says:

So two weeks have passed, and the merge window is closed. Things look reasonably normal for this release (knock wood), and I'm appending my merge shortlog below, since we obviously have much to many changes to list individually.

The stats look pretty normal, although another AMD header drop means that a third of the patch is just various AMD GPU register definitions.

That's not unusual in itself, and if you ignore that part the rest looks pretty normal too: just over half the patch is drivers (even when _not_ counting that AMD register dump, other GPU driver changes show up, but we've got a little bit of everything in there), with the rest being the usual spread of architecture updates, tooling, documentation, and core kernel updates.

I'm going to take the next week mostly off, but I'm reading email and keeping up with things. But I hope it's going to be a fairly calm week. If I have longer latencies than usual, you'll know why.

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.2 once it officially releases to the public, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

Please note that, if you’re going to try out this pre-release version of Linux, be sure that it might contain more bugs than the final release, as it’s an experimental version not intended for production use. We advise you to back up all critical data before you utilize this version.

To download Linux 7.2’s source code, click on the below button:

Linux 7.1 is now officially live!

A new major version of Linux is now live as of June 8th, 2026! Linux 7.1 is the brand new version of Linux under the v7.x version series that provides you with improvements regarding lots of kernel components.

According to Phoronix, Linux 7.1 provides the following changes when it comes to the CPU portion, including, but not limited to:

• Old i486 processors begins to become unsupported in the future
• Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED) in Panther Lake systems improves system performance
• Real Time (RT) kernel builds works for ARM 32-bit processors
• EPYC Venice processors becomes ready with the new AMD SBI driver and the new AMD SMCA bank types
• Many improvements land to LoongArch’s kernel support
• pKVM protected guests becomes available in a “very experimental” state
• Intel Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) becomes more stable on Linux 7.1
• Intel QAT zstd support becomes available in Linux 7.1

Additionally, the graphics portion of the kernel has seen improvements and additions, including:

• A Coreboot framebuffer DRM driver becomes available in this version of Linux
• New hardware support lands to the AMDGPU driver
• Improved old hardware support lands to the AMDGPU driver
• AMD “Kaveri” APUs and other GCN 1.1 APUs become more reliable using the AMDGPU driver
• Intel Xe driver deals with video memory pressure and out of memory more reliably
• Intel Nova Lake P graphics card support lands to Linux 7.1

As for the file system, the following changes have been made:

• New NTFS file system driver gets added to improve performance and reliability over the existing NTFS3 driver
• Existing NTFS3 file system driver gets updated with general improvements and bug fixes
• exFAT file system driver now reduces fragmentation and becomes more reliable
• XFS, EXT4, and F2FS file system drivers get bug fixes
• JFS file system driver now hardens data integrity
• RAID fixes land to Linux 7.1

Other miscellaneous changes have been made to the kernel to improve user experience and to improve performance of your device, such as retiring UDP-Lite code and removing many old network drivers, such as ISDN, ham radio, and other old network drivers. The IPv6 kernel support is now no longer modular; it’s either compiled in the kernel or not. The minimum Rust version requirement has also been increased.

Additionally, more hardware support has been added, including RTL8157 5Gbit and RTL8125cp ASICs, Bitland MIFS WMI driver (for Chinese laptops), Lenovo Yoga Fan driver, Apple SMC power driver, and Lenovo Legion Go driver.

The official announcement has been made by Linus Torvalds in the kernel mailing list, which says:

So it's only Sunday morning back home, but it's Sunday afternoon where I am right now, so I'm doing the 7.1 release at the regular time - just not in the regular timezone.

This obviously means that the merge window opens tomorrow, but I'll be in yet another timezone by then, so timing will all be a bit irregular. Normally I try to front-load the merge window and do as much as possible the first few days - this time I'm not sure that will work out with my laptop and a couple of long flights without internet, but I've made sure that I have fetched the early pull requests (thank you - you know who you are), so I will be able to do some of it off-line.

Anyway, possible slight hiccups in the merge window aside, the news today is 7.1. Below is the shortlog for the last week - nothing particularly interesting or scary stands out, which is as it should be. It's mostly various smaller driver updates (gpu, networking, sound, misc) with some networking and trace tooling fixes. And random minor changes elsewhere.

Please do keep testing despite the release, and apologies in advance if my merge window latency is going to be a bit random the next few days. I briefly considered just extending the release for a week, but decided it wasn't really worth it. I may come to regret that decision,

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after today’s Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.1, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

To download Linux 7.1’s source code, click on the below buttons:

Linux 7.1 is now officially live!

A new major version of Linux is now live as of June 8th, 2026! Linux 7.1 is the brand new version of Linux under the v7.x version series that provides you with improvements regarding lots of kernel components.

According to Phoronix, Linux 7.1 provides the following changes when it comes to the CPU portion, including, but not limited to:

• Old i486 processors begins to become unsupported in the future
• Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED) in Panther Lake systems improves system performance
• Real Time (RT) kernel builds works for ARM 32-bit processors
• EPYC Venice processors becomes ready with the new AMD SBI driver and the new AMD SMCA bank types
• Many improvements land to LoongArch’s kernel support
• pKVM protected guests becomes available in a “very experimental” state
• Intel Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) becomes more stable on Linux 7.1
• Intel QAT zstd support becomes available in Linux 7.1

Additionally, the graphics portion of the kernel has seen improvements and additions, including:

• A Coreboot framebuffer DRM driver becomes available in this version of Linux
• New hardware support lands to the AMDGPU driver
• Improved old hardware support lands to the AMDGPU driver
• AMD “Kaveri” APUs and other GCN 1.1 APUs become more reliable using the AMDGPU driver
• Intel Xe driver deals with video memory pressure and out of memory more reliably
• Intel Nova Lake P graphics card support lands to Linux 7.1

As for the file system, the following changes have been made:

• New NTFS file system driver gets added to improve performance and reliability over the existing NTFS3 driver
• Existing NTFS3 file system driver gets updated with general improvements and bug fixes
• exFAT file system driver now reduces fragmentation and becomes more reliable
• XFS, EXT4, and F2FS file system drivers get bug fixes
• JFS file system driver now hardens data integrity
• RAID fixes land to Linux 7.1

Other miscellaneous changes have been made to the kernel to improve user experience and to improve performance of your device, such as retiring UDP-Lite code and removing many old network drivers, such as ISDN, ham radio, and other old network drivers. The IPv6 kernel support is now no longer modular; it’s either compiled in the kernel or not. The minimum Rust version requirement has also been increased.

Additionally, more hardware support has been added, including RTL8157 5Gbit and RTL8125cp ASICs, Bitland MIFS WMI driver (for Chinese laptops), Lenovo Yoga Fan driver, Apple SMC power driver, and Lenovo Legion Go driver.

The official announcement has been made by Linus Torvalds in the kernel mailing list, which says:

So it's only Sunday morning back home, but it's Sunday afternoon where I am right now, so I'm doing the 7.1 release at the regular time - just not in the regular timezone.

This obviously means that the merge window opens tomorrow, but I'll be in yet another timezone by then, so timing will all be a bit irregular. Normally I try to front-load the merge window and do as much as possible the first few days - this time I'm not sure that will work out with my laptop and a couple of long flights without internet, but I've made sure that I have fetched the early pull requests (thank you - you know who you are), so I will be able to do some of it off-line.

Anyway, possible slight hiccups in the merge window aside, the news today is 7.1. Below is the shortlog for the last week - nothing particularly interesting or scary stands out, which is as it should be. It's mostly various smaller driver updates (gpu, networking, sound, misc) with some networking and trace tooling fixes. And random minor changes elsewhere.

Please do keep testing despite the release, and apologies in advance if my merge window latency is going to be a bit random the next few days. I briefly considered just extending the release for a week, but decided it wasn't really worth it. I may come to regret that decision,

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after today’s Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.1, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

To download Linux 7.1’s source code, click on the below buttons:

Linux 7.1 is now officially live!

A new major version of Linux is now live as of June 8th, 2026! Linux 7.1 is the brand new version of Linux under the v7.x version series that provides you with improvements regarding lots of kernel components.

According to Phoronix, Linux 7.1 provides the following changes when it comes to the CPU portion, including, but not limited to:

• Old i486 processors begins to become unsupported in the future
• Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED) in Panther Lake systems improves system performance
• Real Time (RT) kernel builds works for ARM 32-bit processors
• EPYC Venice processors becomes ready with the new AMD SBI driver and the new AMD SMCA bank types
• Many improvements land to LoongArch’s kernel support
• pKVM protected guests becomes available in a “very experimental” state
• Intel Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) becomes more stable on Linux 7.1
• Intel QAT zstd support becomes available in Linux 7.1

Additionally, the graphics portion of the kernel has seen improvements and additions, including:

• A Coreboot framebuffer DRM driver becomes available in this version of Linux
• New hardware support lands to the AMDGPU driver
• Improved old hardware support lands to the AMDGPU driver
• AMD “Kaveri” APUs and other GCN 1.1 APUs become more reliable using the AMDGPU driver
• Intel Xe driver deals with video memory pressure and out of memory more reliably
• Intel Nova Lake P graphics card support lands to Linux 7.1

As for the file system, the following changes have been made:

• New NTFS file system driver gets added to improve performance and reliability over the existing NTFS3 driver
• Existing NTFS3 file system driver gets updated with general improvements and bug fixes
• exFAT file system driver now reduces fragmentation and becomes more reliable
• XFS, EXT4, and F2FS file system drivers get bug fixes
• JFS file system driver now hardens data integrity
• RAID fixes land to Linux 7.1

Other miscellaneous changes have been made to the kernel to improve user experience and to improve performance of your device, such as retiring UDP-Lite code and removing many old network drivers, such as ISDN, ham radio, and other old network drivers. The IPv6 kernel support is now no longer modular; it’s either compiled in the kernel or not. The minimum Rust version requirement has also been increased.

Additionally, more hardware support has been added, including RTL8157 5Gbit and RTL8125cp ASICs, Bitland MIFS WMI driver (for Chinese laptops), Lenovo Yoga Fan driver, Apple SMC power driver, and Lenovo Legion Go driver.

The official announcement has been made by Linus Torvalds in the kernel mailing list, which says:

So it's only Sunday morning back home, but it's Sunday afternoon where I am right now, so I'm doing the 7.1 release at the regular time - just not in the regular timezone.

This obviously means that the merge window opens tomorrow, but I'll be in yet another timezone by then, so timing will all be a bit irregular. Normally I try to front-load the merge window and do as much as possible the first few days - this time I'm not sure that will work out with my laptop and a couple of long flights without internet, but I've made sure that I have fetched the early pull requests (thank you - you know who you are), so I will be able to do some of it off-line.

Anyway, possible slight hiccups in the merge window aside, the news today is 7.1. Below is the shortlog for the last week - nothing particularly interesting or scary stands out, which is as it should be. It's mostly various smaller driver updates (gpu, networking, sound, misc) with some networking and trace tooling fixes. And random minor changes elsewhere.

Please do keep testing despite the release, and apologies in advance if my merge window latency is going to be a bit random the next few days. I briefly considered just extending the release for a week, but decided it wasn't really worth it. I may come to regret that decision,

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after today’s Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.1, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

To download Linux 7.1’s source code, click on the below buttons:

Linux 7.1 is now officially live!

A new major version of Linux is now live as of June 8th, 2026! Linux 7.1 is the brand new version of Linux under the v7.x version series that provides you with improvements regarding lots of kernel components.

According to Phoronix, Linux 7.1 provides the following changes when it comes to the CPU portion, including, but not limited to:

• Old i486 processors begins to become unsupported in the future
• Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED) in Panther Lake systems improves system performance
• Real Time (RT) kernel builds works for ARM 32-bit processors
• EPYC Venice processors becomes ready with the new AMD SBI driver and the new AMD SMCA bank types
• Many improvements land to LoongArch’s kernel support
• pKVM protected guests becomes available in a “very experimental” state
• Intel Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) becomes more stable on Linux 7.1
• Intel QAT zstd support becomes available in Linux 7.1

Additionally, the graphics portion of the kernel has seen improvements and additions, including:

• A Coreboot framebuffer DRM driver becomes available in this version of Linux
• New hardware support lands to the AMDGPU driver
• Improved old hardware support lands to the AMDGPU driver
• AMD “Kaveri” APUs and other GCN 1.1 APUs become more reliable using the AMDGPU driver
• Intel Xe driver deals with video memory pressure and out of memory more reliably
• Intel Nova Lake P graphics card support lands to Linux 7.1

As for the file system, the following changes have been made:

• New NTFS file system driver gets added to improve performance and reliability over the existing NTFS3 driver
• Existing NTFS3 file system driver gets updated with general improvements and bug fixes
• exFAT file system driver now reduces fragmentation and becomes more reliable
• XFS, EXT4, and F2FS file system drivers get bug fixes
• JFS file system driver now hardens data integrity
• RAID fixes land to Linux 7.1

Other miscellaneous changes have been made to the kernel to improve user experience and to improve performance of your device, such as retiring UDP-Lite code and removing many old network drivers, such as ISDN, ham radio, and other old network drivers. The IPv6 kernel support is now no longer modular; it’s either compiled in the kernel or not. The minimum Rust version requirement has also been increased.

Additionally, more hardware support has been added, including RTL8157 5Gbit and RTL8125cp ASICs, Bitland MIFS WMI driver (for Chinese laptops), Lenovo Yoga Fan driver, Apple SMC power driver, and Lenovo Legion Go driver.

The official announcement has been made by Linus Torvalds in the kernel mailing list, which says:

So it's only Sunday morning back home, but it's Sunday afternoon where I am right now, so I'm doing the 7.1 release at the regular time - just not in the regular timezone.

This obviously means that the merge window opens tomorrow, but I'll be in yet another timezone by then, so timing will all be a bit irregular. Normally I try to front-load the merge window and do as much as possible the first few days - this time I'm not sure that will work out with my laptop and a couple of long flights without internet, but I've made sure that I have fetched the early pull requests (thank you - you know who you are), so I will be able to do some of it off-line.

Anyway, possible slight hiccups in the merge window aside, the news today is 7.1. Below is the shortlog for the last week - nothing particularly interesting or scary stands out, which is as it should be. It's mostly various smaller driver updates (gpu, networking, sound, misc) with some networking and trace tooling fixes. And random minor changes elsewhere.

Please do keep testing despite the release, and apologies in advance if my merge window latency is going to be a bit random the next few days. I briefly considered just extending the release for a week, but decided it wasn't really worth it. I may come to regret that decision,

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after today’s Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.1, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

To download Linux 7.1’s source code, click on the below buttons:

Linux 7.1 is now officially live!

A new major version of Linux is now live as of June 8th, 2026! Linux 7.1 is the brand new version of Linux under the v7.x version series that provides you with improvements regarding lots of kernel components.

According to Phoronix, Linux 7.1 provides the following changes when it comes to the CPU portion, including, but not limited to:

• Old i486 processors begins to become unsupported in the future
• Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED) in Panther Lake systems improves system performance
• Real Time (RT) kernel builds works for ARM 32-bit processors
• EPYC Venice processors becomes ready with the new AMD SBI driver and the new AMD SMCA bank types
• Many improvements land to LoongArch’s kernel support
• pKVM protected guests becomes available in a “very experimental” state
• Intel Linear Address Space Separation (LASS) becomes more stable on Linux 7.1
• Intel QAT zstd support becomes available in Linux 7.1

Additionally, the graphics portion of the kernel has seen improvements and additions, including:

• A Coreboot framebuffer DRM driver becomes available in this version of Linux
• New hardware support lands to the AMDGPU driver
• Improved old hardware support lands to the AMDGPU driver
• AMD “Kaveri” APUs and other GCN 1.1 APUs become more reliable using the AMDGPU driver
• Intel Xe driver deals with video memory pressure and out of memory more reliably
• Intel Nova Lake P graphics card support lands to Linux 7.1

As for the file system, the following changes have been made:

• New NTFS file system driver gets added to improve performance and reliability over the existing NTFS3 driver
• Existing NTFS3 file system driver gets updated with general improvements and bug fixes
• exFAT file system driver now reduces fragmentation and becomes more reliable
• XFS, EXT4, and F2FS file system drivers get bug fixes
• JFS file system driver now hardens data integrity
• RAID fixes land to Linux 7.1

Other miscellaneous changes have been made to the kernel to improve user experience and to improve performance of your device, such as retiring UDP-Lite code and removing many old network drivers, such as ISDN, ham radio, and other old network drivers. The IPv6 kernel support is now no longer modular; it’s either compiled in the kernel or not. The minimum Rust version requirement has also been increased.

Additionally, more hardware support has been added, including RTL8157 5Gbit and RTL8125cp ASICs, Bitland MIFS WMI driver (for Chinese laptops), Lenovo Yoga Fan driver, Apple SMC power driver, and Lenovo Legion Go driver.

The official announcement has been made by Linus Torvalds in the kernel mailing list, which says:

So it's only Sunday morning back home, but it's Sunday afternoon where I am right now, so I'm doing the 7.1 release at the regular time - just not in the regular timezone.

This obviously means that the merge window opens tomorrow, but I'll be in yet another timezone by then, so timing will all be a bit irregular. Normally I try to front-load the merge window and do as much as possible the first few days - this time I'm not sure that will work out with my laptop and a couple of long flights without internet, but I've made sure that I have fetched the early pull requests (thank you - you know who you are), so I will be able to do some of it off-line.

Anyway, possible slight hiccups in the merge window aside, the news today is 7.1. Below is the shortlog for the last week - nothing particularly interesting or scary stands out, which is as it should be. It's mostly various smaller driver updates (gpu, networking, sound, misc) with some networking and trace tooling fixes. And random minor changes elsewhere.

Please do keep testing despite the release, and apologies in advance if my merge window latency is going to be a bit random the next few days. I briefly considered just extending the release for a week, but decided it wasn't really worth it. I may come to regret that decision,

Linux v7.2 will be the third version from the v7.x series that will be released after today’s Linux 7.1, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.1, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

To download Linux 7.1’s source code, click on the below buttons:

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Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon uses Linux 7.0

This year has seen a significant events as Canonical has released a new long-term support release of Ubuntu, which is Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon! Yesterday, this version of Ubuntu was made available to the general public, and it includes a significant amount of improvements, as well as new features.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is built on Linux 7.0, which is a significant milestone in the history of Ubuntu. This was done under Canonical’s promise of bringing the latest Linux version to Ubuntu versions at the time of the release.

You can consult the minimal changelogs of Linux 7.0 here.

Linux 7.0 in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS provides support for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors (Panther Lake), which allows users who have this processor installed on their systems to experience the best of Ubuntu without any compatibility issues. This kernel introduces optimizations for the neural processing unit (NPU), which enables AI-enabled applications to provide maximum performance and improved efficiency.

Linux 7.0 in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS alao provides support for IgH EtherCAT module, which enables support for a real-time networking protocol while enabling native OS support for microsecond-level timing precision for demanding workflows, such as robotics platforms.

For those who are investing in cloud-based solutions, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has been optimized for virtual machine images to enable maximum performance for the most demanding workflows in the cloud. This improves productivity while saving time in those tasks when run on the cloud.

To learn more about Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, consult the below announcement here.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon uses Linux 7.0

This year has seen a significant events as Canonical has released a new long-term support release of Ubuntu, which is Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon! Yesterday, this version of Ubuntu was made available to the general public, and it includes a significant amount of improvements, as well as new features.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is built on Linux 7.0, which is a significant milestone in the history of Ubuntu. This was done under Canonical’s promise of bringing the latest Linux version to Ubuntu versions at the time of the release.

You can consult the minimal changelogs of Linux 7.0 here.

Linux 7.0 in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS provides support for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors (Panther Lake), which allows users who have this processor installed on their systems to experience the best of Ubuntu without any compatibility issues. This kernel introduces optimizations for the neural processing unit (NPU), which enables AI-enabled applications to provide maximum performance and improved efficiency.

Linux 7.0 in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS also provides support for IgH EtherCAT module, which enables support for a real-time networking protocol while enabling native OS support for microsecond-level timing precision for demanding workflows, such as robotics platforms.

For those who are investing in cloud-based solutions, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has been optimized for virtual machine images to enable maximum performance for the most demanding workflows in the cloud. This improves productivity while saving time in those tasks when run on the cloud.

To learn more about Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, consult the below announcement here.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon uses Linux 7.0

This year has seen a significant events as Canonical has released a new long-term support release of Ubuntu, which is Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon! Yesterday, this version of Ubuntu was made available to the general public, and it includes a significant amount of improvements, as well as new features.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is built on Linux 7.0, which is a significant milestone in the history of Ubuntu. This was done under Canonical’s promise of bringing the latest Linux version to Ubuntu versions at the time of the release.

You can consult the minimal changelogs of Linux 7.0 here.

Linux 7.0 in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS provides support for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors (Panther Lake), which allows users who have this processor installed on their systems to experience the best of Ubuntu without any compatibility issues. This kernel introduces optimizations for the neural processing unit (NPU), which enables AI-enabled applications to provide maximum performance and improved efficiency.

Linux 7.0 in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS also provides support for IgH EtherCAT module, which enables support for a real-time networking protocol while enabling native OS support for microsecond-level timing precision for demanding workflows, such as robotics platforms.

For those who are investing in cloud-based solutions, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has been optimized for virtual machine images to enable maximum performance for the most demanding workflows in the cloud. This improves productivity while saving time in those tasks when run on the cloud.

To learn more about Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, consult the below announcement here.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon uses Linux 7.0

This year has seen a significant events as Canonical has released a new long-term support release of Ubuntu, which is Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon! Yesterday, this version of Ubuntu was made available to the general public, and it includes a significant amount of improvements, as well as new features.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is built on Linux 7.0, which is a significant milestone in the history of Ubuntu. This was done under Canonical’s promise of bringing the latest Linux version to Ubuntu versions at the time of the release.

You can consult the minimal changelogs of Linux 7.0 here.

Linux 7.0 in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS provides support for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors (Panther Lake), which allows users who have this processor installed on their systems to experience the best of Ubuntu without any compatibility issues. This kernel introduces optimizations for the neural processing unit (NPU), which enables AI-enabled applications to provide maximum performance and improved efficiency.

Linux 7.0 in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS alao provides support for IgH EtherCAT module, which enables support for a real-time networking protocol while enabling native OS support for microsecond-level timing precision for demanding workflows, such as robotics platforms.

For those who are investing in cloud-based solutions, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has been optimized for virtual machine images to enable maximum performance for the most demanding workflows in the cloud. This improves productivity while saving time in those tasks when run on the cloud.

To learn more about Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, consult the below announcement here.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon uses Linux 7.0

This year has seen a significant events as Canonical has released a new long-term support release of Ubuntu, which is Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon! Yesterday, this version of Ubuntu was made available to the general public, and it includes a significant amount of improvements, as well as new features.

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is built on Linux 7.0, which is a significant milestone in the history of Ubuntu. This was done under Canonical’s promise of bringing the latest Linux version to Ubuntu versions at the time of the release.

You can consult the minimal changelogs of Linux 7.0 here.

Linux 7.0 in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS provides support for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 processors (Panther Lake), which allows users who have this processor installed on their systems to experience the best of Ubuntu without any compatibility issues. This kernel introduces optimizations for the neural processing unit (NPU), which enables AI-enabled applications to provide maximum performance and improved efficiency.

Linux 7.0 in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS alao provides support for IgH EtherCAT module, which enables support for a real-time networking protocol while enabling native OS support for microsecond-level timing precision for demanding workflows, such as robotics platforms.

For those who are investing in cloud-based solutions, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS has been optimized for virtual machine images to enable maximum performance for the most demanding workflows in the cloud. This improves productivity while saving time in those tasks when run on the cloud.

To learn more about Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, consult the below announcement here.

#Linux7.0 erschienen – mehr als ein Nummernsprung

Der neue #Linux_Kernel 7.0 bringt selbstheilende #Dateisysteme, sorgt für robusteren Code und heißt #Rust als nicht-experimentelles Feature willkommen.

Die neue Versionsnummer des #Linux-Kernels wirkt wie ein kleiner Paukenschlag. Wir schreiben nun eine 7.0. Das hat jedoch weniger mit einem großen architekturellen Wurf oder den neuen Features zu tun. #Linus_Torvalds ist dafür bekannt, große Zahlen hinter dem Punkt...

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#Linux7.0 erschienen – mehr als ein Nummernsprung

Der neue #Linux_Kernel 7.0 bringt selbstheilende #Dateisysteme, sorgt für robusteren Code und heißt #Rust als nicht-experimentelles Feature willkommen.

Die neue Versionsnummer des #Linux-Kernels wirkt wie ein kleiner Paukenschlag. Wir schreiben nun eine 7.0. Das hat jedoch weniger mit einem großen architekturellen Wurf oder den neuen Features zu tun. #Linus_Torvalds ist dafür bekannt, große Zahlen hinter dem Punkt...

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#Linux7.0 erschienen – mehr als ein Nummernsprung

Der neue #Linux_Kernel 7.0 bringt selbstheilende #Dateisysteme, sorgt für robusteren Code und heißt #Rust als nicht-experimentelles Feature willkommen.

Die neue Versionsnummer des #Linux-Kernels wirkt wie ein kleiner Paukenschlag. Wir schreiben nun eine 7.0. Das hat jedoch weniger mit einem großen architekturellen Wurf oder den neuen Features zu tun. #Linus_Torvalds ist dafür bekannt, große Zahlen hinter dem Punkt...

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#Linux7.0 erschienen – mehr als ein Nummernsprung

Der neue #Linux_Kernel 7.0 bringt selbstheilende #Dateisysteme, sorgt für robusteren Code und heißt #Rust als nicht-experimentelles Feature willkommen.

Die neue Versionsnummer des #Linux-Kernels wirkt wie ein kleiner Paukenschlag. Wir schreiben nun eine 7.0. Das hat jedoch weniger mit einem großen architekturellen Wurf oder den neuen Features zu tun. #Linus_Torvalds ist dafür bekannt, große Zahlen hinter dem Punkt...

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#Linux7.0 erschienen – mehr als ein Nummernsprung

Der neue #Linux_Kernel 7.0 bringt selbstheilende #Dateisysteme, sorgt für robusteren Code und heißt #Rust als nicht-experimentelles Feature willkommen.

Die neue Versionsnummer des #Linux-Kernels wirkt wie ein kleiner Paukenschlag. Wir schreiben nun eine 7.0. Das hat jedoch weniger mit einem großen architekturellen Wurf oder den neuen Features zu tun. #Linus_Torvalds ist dafür bekannt, große Zahlen hinter dem Punkt...

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Linux 7.0 is now officially live!

A new major version of Linux is now live as of April 13th, 2026! Linux 7.0 is the brand new major version of Linux, after 6.x, that provides you with improvements regarding lots of kernel portions.

According to Phoronix, Linux 7.0 provides the following changes when it comes to the CPU portion, including, but not limited to:

• Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) auto mode is now the default on Linux 7.0, as all known TSX security-related issues are now fixed.
• Turbostat for Linux 7.0 can now report L2 cache statistics.
• Performance events and metrics support for AMD Zen 6 processors.
• Intel NTB and performance events support for Xeon Diamond Rapids.
• Sound and Intel LPSS driver support for Nova Lake.
• New LoongArch CPU features have been added to Linux 7.0.
• User-space CFI support for RISC-V processors.
• Single-copy atomic LS64 and LS64V instructions for ARM64 processors.
• SPARC and Alpha CPU support improvements.

Additionally, the graphics portion of the kernel has seen improvements and additions, including:

• Graphics hardware support in the kernel for upcoming AMD graphics cards for day-1 support.
• Improvements made to SR-IOV and multi-device SVM for the Intel Xe graphics card drivers.
• Multi-queue support for the upcoming Intel Crescent Island AI inference accelerator for day-1 support.
• Intel Nova Lake graphics card driver support.
• More graphics card temperature sensors support has been added.
• Nouveau earns larger page support for better performance in NVK.
• AM62P support has been added for Imagination’s PowerVR graphics card drivers.
• Fixes and improvements for GCN 1.0 and 1.1 hardware.
• Various other improvements.

As for the file system, the following changes have been made:

• Autonomous self-healing capabilities for the XFS file system.
• Experimental remap-tree feature for the BTRFS file system.
• Concurrent drive I/O writers improvements for the EXT4 file system.
• Performance improvements made to the F2FS file system.
• Fixes for the NTFS3 file system.
• More upstream patches for the ecryptfs file system.
• Dynamic thread pool sizing for the NFS server.
• Power sequencing driver for PCIe M.2 connectors.
• Various other improvements.

Other miscellaneous changes have been made to the kernel to improve user experience and to improve performance of your device, such as more frequent usages of the “sheaves” to make the kernel faster, performance improvements to the memory management code and the CPU scheduler system, and performance enhancements up to 50-75% for file-backed large folios. Additionally, the UDP network performance improvement has been earned by inviting a function, and several NICs have been added to the supported devices list, including:

• Realtek RTL8127ATF 10G Fiber SFP
• Airoha AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps PHY
• Qualcomm QCC2072

Additionally, more hardware support has been added, including the Rock Band 4 PS4/PS5 guitar support, which adds support for the following devices in the Sony HID driver:

• PDP RiffMaster
• CRKD Gibson SG

Alongside the guitar support for Rock Band 4, there have been various laptop-related improvements made to the kernel, including the Apple USB Type-C PHY support and the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite PHY support.

As for Rust, the kernel’s Rust support is no longer considered as experimental, with Rust in the kernel being here to stay in the source code of the kernel, which means that more secure code is already on the way, with preparations for the Rust 1.95 programming language and the driver core improvements made there.

The official announcement has been made by Linus Torvalds in the kernel mailing list, which says:

The last week of the release continued the same "lots of small fixes" trend, but it all really does seem pretty benign, so I've tagged the final 7.0 and pushed it out.

I suspect it's a lot of AI tool use that will keep finding corner cases for us for a while, so this may be the "new normal" at least for a while. Only time will tell.

Anyway, this last week was a little bit of everything: networking (core and drivers), arch fixes, tooling and selftests, and various random fixes all over the place.

Let's keep testing, and obviously tomorrow the merge window for 7.1 opens. I already have four dozen pull requests pending - thank you to all the early people.

Linux v7.1 will be the second version from the v7.x series that will be released after today’s Linux 7.0, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.0, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

To download Linux 7.0’s source code, click on the below buttons:

Linux 7.0 is now officially live!

A new major version of Linux is now live as of April 13th, 2026! Linux 7.0 is the brand new major version of Linux, after 6.x, that provides you with improvements regarding lots of kernel portions.

According to Phoronix, Linux 7.0 provides the following changes when it comes to the CPU portion, including, but not limited to:

• Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) auto mode is now the default on Linux 7.0, as all known TSX security-related issues are now fixed.
• Turbostat for Linux 7.0 can now report L2 cache statistics.
• Performance events and metrics support for AMD Zen 6 processors.
• Intel NTB and performance events support for Xeon Diamond Rapids.
• Sound and Intel LPSS driver support for Nova Lake.
• New LoongArch CPU features have been added to Linux 7.0.
• User-space CFI support for RISC-V processors.
• Single-copy atomic LS64 and LS64V instructions for ARM64 processors.
• SPARC and Alpha CPU support improvements.

Additionally, the graphics portion of the kernel has seen improvements and additions, including:

• Graphics hardware support in the kernel for upcoming AMD graphics cards for day-1 support.
• Improvements made to SR-IOV and multi-device SVM for the Intel Xe graphics card drivers.
• Multi-queue support for the upcoming Intel Crescent Island AI inference accelerator for day-1 support.
• Intel Nova Lake graphics card driver support.
• More graphics card temperature sensors support has been added.
• Nouveau earns larger page support for better performance in NVK.
• AM62P support has been added for Imagination’s PowerVR graphics card drivers.
• Fixes and improvements for GCN 1.0 and 1.1 hardware.
• Various other improvements.

As for the file system, the following changes have been made:

• Autonomous self-healing capabilities for the XFS file system.
• Experimental remap-tree feature for the BTRFS file system.
• Concurrent drive I/O writers improvements for the EXT4 file system.
• Performance improvements made to the F2FS file system.
• Fixes for the NTFS3 file system.
• More upstream patches for the ecryptfs file system.
• Dynamic thread pool sizing for the NFS server.
• Power sequencing driver for PCIe M.2 connectors.
• Various other improvements.

Other miscellaneous changes have been made to the kernel to improve user experience and to improve performance of your device, such as more frequent usages of the “sheaves” to make the kernel faster, performance improvements to the memory management code and the CPU scheduler system, and performance enhancements up to 50-75% for file-backed large folios. Additionally, the UDP network performance improvement has been earned by inviting a function, and several NICs have been added to the supported devices list, including:

• Realtek RTL8127ATF 10G Fiber SFP
• Airoha AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps PHY
• Qualcomm QCC2072

Additionally, more hardware support has been added, including the Rock Band 4 PS4/PS5 guitar support, which adds support for the following devices in the Sony HID driver:

• PDP RiffMaster
• CRKD Gibson SG

Alongside the guitar support for Rock Band 4, there have been various laptop-related improvements made to the kernel, including the Apple USB Type-C PHY support and the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite PHY support.

As for Rust, the kernel’s Rust support is no longer considered as experimental, with Rust in the kernel being here to stay in the source code of the kernel, which means that more secure code is already on the way, with preparations for the Rust 1.95 programming language and the driver core improvements made there.

The official announcement has been made by Linus Torvalds in the kernel mailing list, which says:

The last week of the release continued the same "lots of small fixes" trend, but it all really does seem pretty benign, so I've tagged the final 7.0 and pushed it out.

I suspect it's a lot of AI tool use that will keep finding corner cases for us for a while, so this may be the "new normal" at least for a while. Only time will tell.

Anyway, this last week was a little bit of everything: networking (core and drivers), arch fixes, tooling and selftests, and various random fixes all over the place.

Let's keep testing, and obviously tomorrow the merge window for 7.1 opens. I already have four dozen pull requests pending - thank you to all the early people.

Linux v7.1 will be the second version from the v7.x series that will be released after today’s Linux 7.0, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.0, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

To download Linux 7.0’s source code, click on the below buttons:

Linux 7.0 is now officially live!

A new major version of Linux is now live as of April 13th, 2026! Linux 7.0 is the brand new major version of Linux, after 6.x, that provides you with improvements regarding lots of kernel portions.

According to Phoronix, Linux 7.0 provides the following changes when it comes to the CPU portion, including, but not limited to:

• Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) auto mode is now the default on Linux 7.0, as all known TSX security-related issues are now fixed.
• Turbostat for Linux 7.0 can now report L2 cache statistics.
• Performance events and metrics support for AMD Zen 6 processors.
• Intel NTB and performance events support for Xeon Diamond Rapids.
• Sound and Intel LPSS driver support for Nova Lake.
• New LoongArch CPU features have been added to Linux 7.0.
• User-space CFI support for RISC-V processors.
• Single-copy atomic LS64 and LS64V instructions for ARM64 processors.
• SPARC and Alpha CPU support improvements.

Additionally, the graphics portion of the kernel has seen improvements and additions, including:

• Graphics hardware support in the kernel for upcoming AMD graphics cards for day-1 support.
• Improvements made to SR-IOV and multi-device SVM for the Intel Xe graphics card drivers.
• Multi-queue support for the upcoming Intel Crescent Island AI inference accelerator for day-1 support.
• Intel Nova Lake graphics card driver support.
• More graphics card temperature sensors support has been added.
• Nouveau earns larger page support for better performance in NVK.
• AM62P support has been added for Imagination’s PowerVR graphics card drivers.
• Fixes and improvements for GCN 1.0 and 1.1 hardware.
• Various other improvements.

As for the file system, the following changes have been made:

• Autonomous self-healing capabilities for the XFS file system.
• Experimental remap-tree feature for the BTRFS file system.
• Concurrent drive I/O writers improvements for the EXT4 file system.
• Performance improvements made to the F2FS file system.
• Fixes for the NTFS3 file system.
• More upstream patches for the ecryptfs file system.
• Dynamic thread pool sizing for the NFS server.
• Power sequencing driver for PCIe M.2 connectors.
• Various other improvements.

Other miscellaneous changes have been made to the kernel to improve user experience and to improve performance of your device, such as more frequent usages of the “sheaves” to make the kernel faster, performance improvements to the memory management code and the CPU scheduler system, and performance enhancements up to 50-75% for file-backed large folios. Additionally, the UDP network performance improvement has been earned by inviting a function, and several NICs have been added to the supported devices list, including:

• Realtek RTL8127ATF 10G Fiber SFP
• Airoha AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps PHY
• Qualcomm QCC2072

Additionally, more hardware support has been added, including the Rock Band 4 PS4/PS5 guitar support, which adds support for the following devices in the Sony HID driver:

• PDP RiffMaster
• CRKD Gibson SG

Alongside the guitar support for Rock Band 4, there have been various laptop-related improvements made to the kernel, including the Apple USB Type-C PHY support and the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite PHY support.

As for Rust, the kernel’s Rust support is no longer considered as experimental, with Rust in the kernel being here to stay in the source code of the kernel, which means that more secure code is already on the way, with preparations for the Rust 1.95 programming language and the driver core improvements made there.

The official announcement has been made by Linus Torvalds in the kernel mailing list, which says:

The last week of the release continued the same "lots of small fixes" trend, but it all really does seem pretty benign, so I've tagged the final 7.0 and pushed it out.

I suspect it's a lot of AI tool use that will keep finding corner cases for us for a while, so this may be the "new normal" at least for a while. Only time will tell.

Anyway, this last week was a little bit of everything: networking (core and drivers), arch fixes, tooling and selftests, and various random fixes all over the place.

Let's keep testing, and obviously tomorrow the merge window for 7.1 opens. I already have four dozen pull requests pending - thank you to all the early people.

Linux v7.1 will be the second version from the v7.x series that will be released after today’s Linux 7.0, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.0, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

To download Linux 7.0’s source code, click on the below buttons:

Linux 7.0 is now officially live!

A new major version of Linux is now live as of April 13th, 2026! Linux 7.0 is the brand new major version of Linux, after 6.x, that provides you with improvements regarding lots of kernel portions.

According to Phoronix, Linux 7.0 provides the following changes when it comes to the CPU portion, including, but not limited to:

• Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) auto mode is now the default on Linux 7.0, as all known TSX security-related issues are now fixed.
• Turbostat for Linux 7.0 can now report L2 cache statistics.
• Performance events and metrics support for AMD Zen 6 processors.
• Intel NTB and performance events support for Xeon Diamond Rapids.
• Sound and Intel LPSS driver support for Nova Lake.
• New LoongArch CPU features have been added to Linux 7.0.
• User-space CFI support for RISC-V processors.
• Single-copy atomic LS64 and LS64V instructions for ARM64 processors.
• SPARC and Alpha CPU support improvements.

Additionally, the graphics portion of the kernel has seen improvements and additions, including:

• Graphics hardware support in the kernel for upcoming AMD graphics cards for day-1 support.
• Improvements made to SR-IOV and multi-device SVM for the Intel Xe graphics card drivers.
• Multi-queue support for the upcoming Intel Crescent Island AI inference accelerator for day-1 support.
• Intel Nova Lake graphics card driver support.
• More graphics card temperature sensors support has been added.
• Nouveau earns larger page support for better performance in NVK.
• AM62P support has been added for Imagination’s PowerVR graphics card drivers.
• Fixes and improvements for GCN 1.0 and 1.1 hardware.
• Various other improvements.

As for the file system, the following changes have been made:

• Autonomous self-healing capabilities for the XFS file system.
• Experimental remap-tree feature for the BTRFS file system.
• Concurrent drive I/O writers improvements for the EXT4 file system.
• Performance improvements made to the F2FS file system.
• Fixes for the NTFS3 file system.
• More upstream patches for the ecryptfs file system.
• Dynamic thread pool sizing for the NFS server.
• Power sequencing driver for PCIe M.2 connectors.
• Various other improvements.

Other miscellaneous changes have been made to the kernel to improve user experience and to improve performance of your device, such as more frequent usages of the “sheaves” to make the kernel faster, performance improvements to the memory management code and the CPU scheduler system, and performance enhancements up to 50-75% for file-backed large folios. Additionally, the UDP network performance improvement has been earned by inviting a function, and several NICs have been added to the supported devices list, including:

• Realtek RTL8127ATF 10G Fiber SFP
• Airoha AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps PHY
• Qualcomm QCC2072

Additionally, more hardware support has been added, including the Rock Band 4 PS4/PS5 guitar support, which adds support for the following devices in the Sony HID driver:

• PDP RiffMaster
• CRKD Gibson SG

Alongside the guitar support for Rock Band 4, there have been various laptop-related improvements made to the kernel, including the Apple USB Type-C PHY support and the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite PHY support.

As for Rust, the kernel’s Rust support is no longer considered as experimental, with Rust in the kernel being here to stay in the source code of the kernel, which means that more secure code is already on the way, with preparations for the Rust 1.95 programming language and the driver core improvements made there.

The official announcement has been made by Linus Torvalds in the kernel mailing list, which says:

The last week of the release continued the same "lots of small fixes" trend, but it all really does seem pretty benign, so I've tagged the final 7.0 and pushed it out.

I suspect it's a lot of AI tool use that will keep finding corner cases for us for a while, so this may be the "new normal" at least for a while. Only time will tell.

Anyway, this last week was a little bit of everything: networking (core and drivers), arch fixes, tooling and selftests, and various random fixes all over the place.

Let's keep testing, and obviously tomorrow the merge window for 7.1 opens. I already have four dozen pull requests pending - thank you to all the early people.

Linux v7.1 will be the second version from the v7.x series that will be released after today’s Linux 7.0, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.0, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

To download Linux 7.0’s source code, click on the below buttons:

Linux 7.0 is now officially live!

A new major version of Linux is now live as of April 13th, 2026! Linux 7.0 is the brand new major version of Linux, after 6.x, that provides you with improvements regarding lots of kernel portions.

According to Phoronix, Linux 7.0 provides the following changes when it comes to the CPU portion, including, but not limited to:

• Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) auto mode is now the default on Linux 7.0, as all known TSX security-related issues are now fixed.
• Turbostat for Linux 7.0 can now report L2 cache statistics.
• Performance events and metrics support for AMD Zen 6 processors.
• Intel NTB and performance events support for Xeon Diamond Rapids.
• Sound and Intel LPSS driver support for Nova Lake.
• New LoongArch CPU features have been added to Linux 7.0.
• User-space CFI support for RISC-V processors.
• Single-copy atomic LS64 and LS64V instructions for ARM64 processors.
• SPARC and Alpha CPU support improvements.

Additionally, the graphics portion of the kernel has seen improvements and additions, including:

• Graphics hardware support in the kernel for upcoming AMD graphics cards for day-1 support.
• Improvements made to SR-IOV and multi-device SVM for the Intel Xe graphics card drivers.
• Multi-queue support for the upcoming Intel Crescent Island AI inference accelerator for day-1 support.
• Intel Nova Lake graphics card driver support.
• More graphics card temperature sensors support has been added.
• Nouveau earns larger page support for better performance in NVK.
• AM62P support has been added for Imagination’s PowerVR graphics card drivers.
• Fixes and improvements for GCN 1.0 and 1.1 hardware.
• Various other improvements.

As for the file system, the following changes have been made:

• Autonomous self-healing capabilities for the XFS file system.
• Experimental remap-tree feature for the BTRFS file system.
• Concurrent drive I/O writers improvements for the EXT4 file system.
• Performance improvements made to the F2FS file system.
• Fixes for the NTFS3 file system.
• More upstream patches for the ecryptfs file system.
• Dynamic thread pool sizing for the NFS server.
• Power sequencing driver for PCIe M.2 connectors.
• Various other improvements.

Other miscellaneous changes have been made to the kernel to improve user experience and to improve performance of your device, such as more frequent usages of the “sheaves” to make the kernel faster, performance improvements to the memory management code and the CPU scheduler system, and performance enhancements up to 50-75% for file-backed large folios. Additionally, the UDP network performance improvement has been earned by inviting a function, and several NICs have been added to the supported devices list, including:

• Realtek RTL8127ATF 10G Fiber SFP
• Airoha AN8811HB 2.5 Gbps PHY
• Qualcomm QCC2072

Additionally, more hardware support has been added, including the Rock Band 4 PS4/PS5 guitar support, which adds support for the following devices in the Sony HID driver:

• PDP RiffMaster
• CRKD Gibson SG

Alongside the guitar support for Rock Band 4, there have been various laptop-related improvements made to the kernel, including the Apple USB Type-C PHY support and the Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite PHY support.

As for Rust, the kernel’s Rust support is no longer considered as experimental, with Rust in the kernel being here to stay in the source code of the kernel, which means that more secure code is already on the way, with preparations for the Rust 1.95 programming language and the driver core improvements made there.

The official announcement has been made by Linus Torvalds in the kernel mailing list, which says:

The last week of the release continued the same "lots of small fixes" trend, but it all really does seem pretty benign, so I've tagged the final 7.0 and pushed it out.

I suspect it's a lot of AI tool use that will keep finding corner cases for us for a while, so this may be the "new normal" at least for a while. Only time will tell.

Anyway, this last week was a little bit of everything: networking (core and drivers), arch fixes, tooling and selftests, and various random fixes all over the place.

Let's keep testing, and obviously tomorrow the merge window for 7.1 opens. I already have four dozen pull requests pending - thank you to all the early people.

Linux v7.1 will be the second version from the v7.x series that will be released after today’s Linux 7.0, which will bring many improvements and additions to enhance your user experience.

Arch Linux and other distributions will be updated to utilize Linux 7.0, with rolling distros being updated first, then the subsequent distributions will utilize this version of Linux according to the distro’s release schedule. Meanwhile, keep checking for updates in your Linux distro (such as pacman -Syu as root in Arch Linux), or compile it from source.

To download Linux 7.0’s source code, click on the below buttons:

AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Perf Halved by Linux 7.0, Fix May Not Be Easy

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-AWS-PostgreSQL-Drop

#HackerNews #AWS #PostgreSQL #Linux7.0 #PerformanceIssue #TechNews #DatabaseOptimization

AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Perf Halved by Linux 7.0, Fix May Not Be Easy

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-AWS-PostgreSQL-Drop

#HackerNews #AWS #PostgreSQL #Linux7.0 #PerformanceIssue #TechNews #DatabaseOptimization

AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Perf Halved by Linux 7.0, Fix May Not Be Easy

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-AWS-PostgreSQL-Drop

#HackerNews #AWS #PostgreSQL #Linux7.0 #PerformanceIssue #TechNews #DatabaseOptimization

AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Perf Halved by Linux 7.0, Fix May Not Be Easy

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-AWS-PostgreSQL-Drop

#HackerNews #AWS #PostgreSQL #Linux7.0 #PerformanceIssue #TechNews #DatabaseOptimization

AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Perf Halved by Linux 7.0, Fix May Not Be Easy

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-AWS-PostgreSQL-Drop

#HackerNews #AWS #PostgreSQL #Linux7.0 #PerformanceIssue #TechNews #DatabaseOptimization

Le prime RC di Linux 7.0 sono insolitamente grandi: Torvalds segnala un ciclo di sviluppo turbolento che potrebbe allungarsi ancora. #Kernel #Linux #Linux7

https://www.linuxeasy.org/linux-7-0-ciclo-di-sviluppo-ancora-instabile/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Le prime RC di Linux 7.0 sono insolitamente grandi: Torvalds segnala un ciclo di sviluppo turbolento che potrebbe allungarsi ancora. #Kernel #Linux #Linux7

https://www.linuxeasy.org/linux-7-0-ciclo-di-sviluppo-ancora-instabile/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social