Linux Kernel 6.0 Announced
Linus Torvalds has released Linux kernel 6.0, noting that the version number change is more a matter of practicality than reflective of any fundamental changes.
“But of course there's a lot of various changes in 6.0,” Torvalds says, “We've got over 15k non-merge commits in there in total, after all, and as such 6.0 is one of the bigger releases at least in numbers of commits in a while.”
According to Jon Corbet at LWN.net, “headline features of this latest release, include a number of io_uring improvements including support for buffered writes to XFS filesystems and zero-copy network transmission, an io_uring-based block driver mechanism, the runtime verification subsystem, and much more.”
See change details in LWN’s merge-window summaries (part 1 and part 2) and read more at LWN.net.
