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The 6.7 kernel has been released (lwn.net)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Some of the headline features in this release are: the removal of support for the Itanium architecture, the first part of the futex2 API, futex support in io_uring, the BPF exceptions mechanism, the bcachefs filesystem, the TCP authentication option, the kernel samepage merging smart scan mode, and networking support for the Landlock security module. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the (in-progress) KernelNewbies 6.7 page for more information.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (4 children)

We are only two minor versions away from a very nice milestone.

[–] CameronDev 50 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Just to upset you, the next 2 versions are 6.8, and 9.0.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Linus is a coward

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago

Let's make a petition. Kernel version 6.9.420 must be free!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

No way we switched to microsoft versioning :o

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (4 children)

What happened to 7 and 8?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Same as Windows 9

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Seven is spending a very long time in jail for cannibalism.

[–] CameronDev 3 points 10 months ago

Those were skipped to upset you :D

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

7 ate 9

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

6.8 to 9.0 would upset a lot of people

[–] [email protected] 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

6.6.6 was rad while it lasted.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Was very short on Arch :(

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

4.20 still feels like yesterday

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

69, interrupted with a period?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This should allow nouveau to reclock NVIDIA 2xxx and newer GPUs. Huge step forward for open source NVIDIA drovers and I've been testing this on my laptop for a few weeks now woth the rc kernels and the NVK driver and it's pretty impressive so far.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

I'm ready for my system to just work out of the box Nvidia's Drivers are a shit show.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Really looking forward to more bcachefs figures

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Bcachefs kek new filesystem noice