{
  "id": 1373690,
  "title": "The 7.2 kernel has been released",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/16/the-7-2-kernel-has-been-released",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-16T23:11:28.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "LWN",
    "slug": "lwn",
    "url": "https://lwn.net/Articles/1088991/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}