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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