The Linux 6.0 kernel has been launched with adjustments impacting areas equivalent to chip {hardware} help, timer registers, and XFS file programs. Greater adjustments equivalent to Rust programming language help are lined up for Linux 6.1.
Unveiling of the kernel was introduced by Linux founder Linus Torvalds in a bulletin on October 2. The bulletin cites varied adjustments together with correct enablement of registers earlier than accessing timers in addition to making certain that each one MACs are powered down earlier than reset and solely doing PLL as soon as after a reset. Different adjustments, cited by the lwn.internet information website for Linux, embrace buffered writes to XFS file programs and zero-copy community transmission with io_uring.
“So, as is hopefully clear to everyone, the foremost model quantity change is extra about me working out of fingers and toes than it’s about any massive basic adjustments,” Torvalds mentioned. “However after all there’s quite a lot of varied adjustments in 6.0 — we’ve received over 15,000 non-merge commits in there in whole, in any case, and as such 6.0 is
one of many greater releases not less than in numbers of commits shortly.”
Torvalds was set to open the merge window for Linux 6.1, with various “core issues” lined up for it. One potential addition to the kernel is lodging of the Rust language, which might occur subsequent 12 months.
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