• The 7.1 kernel has been released

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Sunday, June 14, 2026 20:00:07
    The 7.1 kernel has been released

    Date:
    Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:47:53 +0000

    Description:
    Linus has released the 7.1 kernel .
    " So it's only Sunday morning back home, but it's Sunday afternoon where
    I am right now, so I'm doing the 7.1 release at the regular time -
    just not in the regular timezone. " Significant changes in 7.1 include
    the removal of support for some old 486-based architectures,
    some new clone() flags making
    process management easier, BPF support for io_uring,
    zero-copy-I/O support for the ublk user-space block
    driver,
    initial (incomplete) sub-scheduler support in sched_ext,
    more swapping improvements ,
    a completely rewritten NTFS
    implementation ,
    and much more. See the LWN merge-window summaries ( part1 , part2 ) for details.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1077758/


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