Subj : The 6.12 kernel has been released
To   : All
From : LWN.net
Date : Sun Nov 17 2024 22:45:05

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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