The 7.2 kernel has been released
The 7.2 kernel has been released. Linus said: Well, this last week of the release was - once again - bigger than I would have wished for, but hey, with the whole "new normal" thing, if I delayed releases for that reason we'd probably never have a release at all. Significant features in this release include common attributes support in the bpf() system call, cache-aware load balancing for the CPU…
The Linux kernel version 7.2 has been released, with Linus Torvalds noting that the final week of the release was larger than expected due to the ongoing "new normal" circumstances. Key features in this release include support for common attributes in the bpf() system call, cache-aware load balancing for the CPU scheduler, large-folio support in the Btrfs filesystem, enhancements to the swap subsystem, improvements to the Landlock security module, and support for block devices with inline encryption hardware through the dm-inlinecrypt device-mapper target. Further details can be found in the LWN merge window summaries and the KernelNewbies 7.2 page.
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