Megjelent a 6.6-os Linux kernel!

Kernel

Mivel semmi release critical sem jött közbe, Linus az általános menetrendnek megfelelően kiadta a 6.6-os Linux kernelt.

( trey | 2023. 10. 30., h – 09:00 )

Újdonságok, változások:

  1. Prominent features
    1. New task scheduler: EEVDF
    2. Shadow stacks to prevent exploits
    3. Support for fs-verity in overlayfs
    4. Quotas and xattrs support in tmpfs
    5. More configurable unbound workqueues
    6. Faster asynchronous Direct I/O using io_uring
    7. First pieces of XFS online fsck
  2. Core (various)
  3. File systems
    1. BTRFS
    2. OVERLAYFS
    3. XFS
    4. EXT4
    5. CEPH
    6. FUSE
    7. GFS2
    8. EROFS
    9. KSMBD
    10. NFS
    11. TMPFS
  4. Memory management
  5. Block layer
  6. BPF
  7. Tracing, perf
  8. Virtualization
  9. Cryptography
  10. Security
  11. Networking
  12. Architectures
    1. ARM
    2. X86
    3. DMA engines
    4. LOONGARCH
    5. RISCV
    6. POWERPC
    7. PARISC
    8. S390
  13. Drivers
    1. Graphics
    2. Storage
    3. Drivers in the Staging area
    4. Bluetooth
    5. Networking
    6. Audio
    7. Tablets, touch screens, keyboards, mouses
    8. TV tuners, webcams, video capturers
    9. Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)
    10. Serial
    11. Voltage, current regulators, power capping, power supply
    12. Watchdog
    13. Real Time Clock (RTC)
    14. FRU Support Interface (FSI)
    15. Clock
    16. Multi Media Card (MMC)
    17. Hardware monitoring (hwmon)
    18. Inter-Integrated Circuit (I2C + I3C)
    19. Industrial I/O (iio)
    20. General Purpose I/O (gpio)
    21. Cryptography hardware acceleration
    22. Leds
    23. PHY ("physical layer" framework)
    24. PCI
    25. Universal Serial Bus
    26. IOMMU
    27. Pin Controllers (pinctrl)
    28. Power Management
    29. Memory Technology Devices (MTD)
    30. Various
  14. List of Pull Requests
  15. Other news sites

trey @ gépház