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Nyolc -rc kiadás után Linus vágül kiadta a 6.2-es Linux kernel végleges verzióját. A kiadással egyidőben ma megnyílik a 6.3-as kernel beolvasztási időablaka (merge window). Bejelentés:

From Linus Torvalds <>
Date Sun, 19 Feb 2023 14:43:02 -0800
Subject Linux 6.2

 

 
So here we are, right on (the extended) schedule, with 6.2 out.

Nothing unexpected happened last week, with just a random selection of
small fixes spread all over, with nothing really standing out. The
shortlog is tiny and appended below, you can scroll through it if
you're bored.

Wed have a couple of small things that Thorsten was tracking on the
regression side, but I wasn't going to apply any last-minute patches
that weren't actively pushed by maintainers, so they will have to show
up for stable. Nothing seemed even remotely worth trying to delay
things for.

And this obviously means that the 6.3 merge window will open tomorrow,
and I already have 30+ pull requests queued up, which I really
appreciate. I like how people have started to take the whole "ready
for the merge window" to heart.

But in the meantime, please do give 6.2 a testing. Maybe it's not a
sexy LTS release like 6.1 ended up being, but all those regular
pedestrian kernels want some test love too.

         Linus

( trey | 2023. 02. 20., h – 12:48 )

Contents

  1. Prominent features
    1. Faster mitigation of the Retbleed CPU vulnerability, and FineIBT
    2. Btrfs improvements
    3. Better control of block device writeback
    4. Add support for TCP Protective Load Balancing
    5. BPF features: User defined objects
    6. The runtime verification tool
    7. Some optional power savings due to improved RCU locking
  2. Core (various)
  3. File systems
  4. Memory management
  5. Block layer
  6. Tracing, perf and BPF
  7. Virtualization
  8. Cryptography
  9. Security
  10. Networking
  11. Architectures
    1. ARM
    2. X86
    3. POWERPC
    4. LOONGARCH
    5. RISCV
    6. S390
    7. MICROBLAZE
  12. Drivers
    1. Graphics
    2. Power Management
    3. Storage
    4. Drivers in the Staging area
    5. Networking
    6. Audio
    7. Tablets, touch screens, keyboards, mouses
    8. TV tuners, webcams, video capturers
    9. Universal Serial Bus
    10. Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
    11. Watchdog
    12. Serial
    13. CPU Frequency scaling
    14. Voltage, current regulators, power capping, power supply
    15. Real Time Clock (RTC)
    16. Pin Controllers (pinctrl)
    17. Multi Media Card (MMC)
    18. Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
    19. Industrial I/O (iio)
    20. Multi Function Devices (MFD)
    21. Pulse-Width Modulation (PWM)
    22. Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C + I3C)
    23. Hardware monitoring (hwmon)
    24. General Purpose I/O (gpio)
    25. DMA engines
    26. Hardware Random Number Generator (hwrng)
    27. Cryptography hardware acceleration
    28. PCI
    29. Clock
    30. PHY ("physical layer" framework)
    31. EDAC (Error Detection And Correction)
    32. Various
  13. List of Pull Requests
  14. Other news sites

trey @ gépház

Mindig hagynak egy killer feature-t, ami miatt várós a következő verzió. Igaz btrfs-t nem használok, de marha jól hangzik. Tegnap óta fent van a 6.2, eddig hibátlanul megy, bugot nem tapasztalok, érzetre semmi nem változott a 6.1.12 óta.

“Windows 95/98: 32 bit extension and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.”