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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 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to start the release candidate cycle with the first release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 was released two weeks ago as a stable release, which got two updates afterwards to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

When the first release candidate gets released, we will provide you with more complete changelogs, but here are three of the most striking changes done in this version of Linux:

• Performance for AMD EPYC Sorano has seen a massive increase in several areas, including localhost network processing and stress tests. This test was performed on an AMD EPYC 8635P processor with 84 cores and 168 threads, and TCP and QUIC protocol benchmarks show increased performance in Linux 7.2 over the stable release of Linux 7.1.
• Linux 7.2 has seen some deprecations and removals when it comes to very old drivers and code, including the Hercules Monochrome graphics cards that are more than 40 years old, the ancient AppleTalk protocol, and some more remnants of i486 platform code as they age.
• Linux 7.2 also gets prepared for many networking hardware, including Neighbor Awareness Networking (Wi-Fi Aware) for securely discovering and pairing with other devices without relying on traditional routers, Bluetooth, or an internet connection. It also brings support for Wi-Fi 8 (802.11bn), which is an Ultra High Reliability (UHR) standard that focuses on reliability rather than speed.

Linux 7.2 RC1 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 RC1 is expected to release this week

This week, Linux 7.2 is expected to start the release candidate cycle with the first release candidate being planned for tomorrow’s release. Linux 7.1 was released two weeks ago as a stable release, which got two updates afterwards to implement bug fixes and other general improvements to different kernel components.

When the first release candidate gets released, we will provide you with more complete changelogs, but here are three of the most striking changes done in this version of Linux:

• Performance for AMD EPYC Sorano has seen a massive increase in several areas, including localhost network processing and stress tests. This test was performed on an AMD EPYC 8635P processor with 84 cores and 168 threads, and TCP and QUIC protocol benchmarks show increased performance in Linux 7.2 over the stable release of Linux 7.1.
• Linux 7.2 has seen some deprecations and removals when it comes to very old drivers and code, including the Hercules Monochrome graphics cards that are more than 40 years old, the ancient AppleTalk protocol, and some more remnants of i486 platform code as they age.
• Linux 7.2 also gets prepared for many networking hardware, including Neighbor Awareness Networking (Wi-Fi Aware) for securely discovering and pairing with other devices without relying on traditional routers, Bluetooth, or an internet connection. It also brings support for Wi-Fi 8 (802.11bn), which is an Ultra High Reliability (UHR) standard that focuses on reliability rather than speed.

Linux 7.2 RC1 is expected to be released early Monday.

Linux 7.2 will improve performance for AMD EPYC Sorano

A successor of Linux 7.1 will bring many exciting set of changes related to different parts of the kernel, but it looks like that there are some of the most exciting changes done to the kernel, and you’ll be able to experience them with the first release candidate of Linux 7.2 expected to release on June 29th.

According to the tests made by Phoronix, Linux 7.2 has brought performance improvements to systems running the AMD EPYC Sorano processors, and the test was performed on an AMD EPYC 8635P processor with 84 cores and 168 threads. This processor operates on a Zen 5 architecture.

The initial test that was made focused on improvements of performance regarding the localhost network processing speed, as well as the measurement of latency and a massive boost of performance with Stress-NG.

This test was focused on localhost TCP and QUIC protocol performance with 1, 4, 16, and 32 threads for TCP processing and 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 threads for QUIC processing. For every test, Linux 7.2’s current Git branch wins over the current stable release, which was Linux 7.1. For example, in TCP with 4 threads, 360.59 Gbps was achieved in Linux 7.2 over 308.60 Gbps. Another one was QUIC with 16 threads, 8.67 Gbps was achieved over 8.36 Gbps.

When it comes to network socket benchmarking, latency has also been lowered, with 7.475 µsec (microseconds) being achieved for socket processing latency under Linux 7.2, over 7.729 µsec. As for stress testing, Linux 7.2 achieves 68,499,720.48 BogoOps/s (bogus operations per second), which is a significant improvement over Linux 7.1, which achieved only 12,557,904.56 BogoOps/s.

For more information, consult this Phoronix article.

Linux 7.2 will improve performance for AMD EPYC Sorano

A successor of Linux 7.1 will bring many exciting set of changes related to different parts of the kernel, but it looks like that there are some of the most exciting changes done to the kernel, and you’ll be able to experience them with the first release candidate of Linux 7.2 expected to release on June 29th.

According to the tests made by Phoronix, Linux 7.2 has brought performance improvements to systems running the AMD EPYC Sorano processors, and the test was performed on an AMD EPYC 8635P processor with 84 cores and 168 threads. This processor operates on a Zen 5 architecture.

The initial test that was made focused on improvements of performance regarding the localhost network processing speed, as well as the measurement of latency and a massive boost of performance with Stress-NG.

This test was focused on localhost TCP and QUIC protocol performance with 1, 4, 16, and 32 threads for TCP processing and 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32 threads for QUIC processing. For every test, Linux 7.2’s current Git branch wins over the current stable release, which was Linux 7.1. For example, in TCP with 4 threads, 360.59 Gbps was achieved in Linux 7.2 over 308.60 Gbps. Another one was QUIC with 16 threads, 8.67 Gbps was achieved over 8.36 Gbps.

When it comes to network socket benchmarking, latency has also been lowered, with 7.475 µsec (microseconds) being achieved for socket processing latency under Linux 7.2, over 7.729 µsec. As for stress testing, Linux 7.2 achieves 68,499,720.48 BogoOps/s (bogus operations per second), which is a significant improvement over Linux 7.1, which achieved only 12,557,904.56 BogoOps/s.

For more information, consult this Phoronix article.

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/06/23/linux-72-removes-kernel-side-strncpy-after-six-year-cleanup-xcxwbn/

Linux 7.2 has removed the kernel-side strncpy API after a six-year cleanup, shifting low-level code toward explicit string-copy helpers and reviewable intent.

#LinuxKernel #Kernel #Linux72 #Linux #Cybersecurity

https://winbuzzer.com/2026/06/23/linux-72-removes-kernel-side-strncpy-after-six-year-cleanup-xcxwbn/

Linux 7.2 has removed the kernel-side strncpy API after a six-year cleanup, shifting low-level code toward explicit string-copy helpers and reviewable intent.

#LinuxKernel #Kernel #Linux72 #Linux #Cybersecurity