Subj : The 6.16 kernel is out
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From : LWN.net
Date : Mon Jul 28 2025 11:30:09

The 6.16 kernel is out

Date:
Mon, 28 Jul 2025 03:42:18 +0000

Description:
Linus has released the 6.16 kernel : It's Sunday afternoon, and the release 
cycle has come to an end. Last
	week was nice and calm, and there were no big show-stopper surprises
	to keep us from the regular schedule, so I've tagged and pushed out
	6.16 as planned. Headline changes in this release include
enabling five-level page tables by default
on x86 systems,
a number of core-dump changes including
the ability to send core dumps to a socket,
the ability to create
pipes in io_uring, atomic-write support in the XFS
filesystem,
the elimination of block-layer bounce
buffering,
a new DMA-mapping API ,
an option to block file descriptors passed
in via Unix-domain sockets,
and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries ( part1 , part2 ) and the 
KernelNewbies 6.16 page for
more information.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1031534/


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