Linux Kernel 5.x Releases

guest · Apr 5, 2020

Linux 5.6 Kernel Released With WireGuard, USB4, New AMD + Intel Hardware Support
March 29, 2020
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.6-Released

Linus Torvalds just announced the release of the Linux 5.6 stable kernel a few minutes ago. This also means the Linux 5.7 merge window is now open for business.
The Linux kernel creator announced, [...]
See our Linux 5.6 feature overview for all the big changes in this kernel from WireGuard's long awaited introduction to initial USB4 support to various new Intel, AMD, and Arm hardware enablement.

This weekend I also penned a shorter the best features of Linux 5.6 if you are short on time.
Linux 5.7 is now open for landing of new feature work for the next two weeks.
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Linux 5.6 is out with USB4 and GeForce RTX GPU support, plus much more

Linux 5.6 Kernel Released (March 29, 2020)

reasonablePrivacy · Apr 28, 2020

Kolivas Takes Break From Designing COVID-19 Equipment To Release Linux 5.6-ck1 + MuQSS

Con Kolivas is out with his Linux 5.6-ck1 optimization patch-set and version 0.199 of the MuQSS scheduler. This re-base against the Linux 5.6 stable kernel is coming late due to Kolivas leading a team making 3D printed COVID-19 equipment in Australia.
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guest · Jun 1, 2020

Linux 5.7 Kernel Released With New Apple Driver, Official Intel Gen12 Graphics
May 31, 2020
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.7-Released

As expected, Linus Torvalds just released the stable Linux 5.7 kernel.

Linus commented in the 5.7 release announcement, "So we had a fairly calm last week, with nothing really screaming "let's delay one more rc". Knock wood - let's hope we don't have anything silly lurking this time, like the last-minute wifi regression we had in 5.6.. But embarrassing regressions last time notwithstanding, it all looks fine."
As usual, the new kernel can be fetched from Kernel.org.
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As far as Linux 5.7 goes there are many new features and improvements like an Apple USB "Fast Charge" driver, Intel Tiger Lake "Gen12" graphics are now deemed stable and promoted out of the experimental flag, AMD Renoir graphics are in good shape, F2FS Zstd support, Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 support on this mainline kernel, and a lot more. See our Linux 5.7 feature overview to learn more about this new stable kernel release.
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Linux 5.7 Kernel Released (June 1, 2020)

reasonablePrivacy · Jun 5, 2020

F2FS Zstd support.
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Yay! I like F2FS more and more.

guest · Jul 26, 2020

Following Many Patches, Linux 5.9 Finally Switching To HTTPS Links En Masse
July 25, 2020
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.9-HTTPS-Links

On the mailing lists and browsing various Git "-next" repositories it's felt like "damn, there are a lot of patches about replacing HTTP links with HTTPS all of a sudden" inside the kernel sources and documentation.
Indeed, for Linux 5.9 where applicable HTTP links are being replaced for HTTPS.

The basis for all of these patches are to "reduce attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for [man in the middle attacks] as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate."

This isn't some concerted effort but the replacing HTTP with HTTPS links is done by Alexander Klimov, who has contributed to the Linux kernel over the years.
So with that come Linux 5.9 the in-kernel/documentation links are looking to finally be HTTPS where applicable.
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guest · Aug 3, 2020

Linux 5.8 Released With AMD Energy Driver, F2FS LZO-RLE, IBM POWER10 Booting
August 2, 2020
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.8-Released

Linus Torvalds was debating up to the last minutes today of whether to opt for Linux 5.8-rc8 or go ahead and release Linux 5.8 as stable... He opted for Linux 5.8 splashing down on this historic day.

Linus wrote in the 5.8 release announcement that despite this cycle being very large, it turned out fairly well and didn't need a 5.8-rc8 release. Though due to some last minute changes, he does dream of having a sort of SAT-solver for symbol dependencies that would work across architectures and configurations for cleaning up the Linux kernel header file dependency mess. But that for now is just a dream.
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See our Linux 5.8 feature overview for all the exciting changes from an AMD Energy Driver for Zen/Zen2 CPUs to new F2FS compression capabilities, POWER10 CPUs starting to boot with the mainline kernel code, power management improvements, and much more. This is also the first major kernel release featuring the new inclusive terminology guidelines.

Linux 5.8 is the kernel that should be found by default in the likes of Ubuntu 20.10.
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Softpedia: Linus Torvalds Releases the “Really Big” Linux Kernel 5.8

New in this fresh version of the kernel are the updated drivers that add support for a series of Adreno GPU chips like the 405, 640, and 650 versions, the new Spectre patches, as well as exFAT refinements.

Radeon drivers are also getting improved support in this release, and so is the POWER10 chip whose launch is currently projected to happen sometime next year.

“In the 5.8 merge window we have modified about 20% of all the files in the kernel source repository. That's really a fairly big percentage, and while some of it _is_ scripted, on the whole it's really just the same pattern: 5.8 has simply seen a lot of development,” Torvalds said.
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guest · Oct 12, 2020

Linux 5.9 Released With Initial AMD RDNA 2 GPU Enablement, Other New Hardware Support
October 11, 2020
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.9-Released

Linus Torvalds has just released Linux 5.9 as stable.

Linux 5.9 is out as the 2020 autumn kernel update. Linux 5.9 has a number of exciting improvements including initial support for upcoming Radeon RX 6000 "RDNA 2" graphics cards, initial Intel Rocket Lake graphics, NVMe zoned namespaces (ZNS) support, various storage improvements, IBM's initial work on POWER10 CPU bring-up, the FSGSBASE instruction is now used, 32-bit x86 Clang build support, and more. See our Linux 5.9 feature overview for the whole scoop on the many changes to see with this kernel.
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Linus Torvalds wrote in his 5.9 announcement, "Ok, so I'll be honest - I had hoped for quite a bit fewer changes this last week, but at the same time there doesn't really seem to be anything particularly scary in here. It's just more commits and more lines changed than I would have wished for."
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After 5 Years, FSGSBASE Support Finally Ready For Linux To Enhance AMD/Intel Performance (August 4, 2020)

guest · Oct 26, 2020

release candidate
Linux 5.10 is a bigger kernel release than expected and sees the removal of setf_fs()
October 26, 2020
https://betanews.com/2020/10/26/linux-5-10-kernel-release/

With first release candidate of version 5.10 of the Linux kernel now available, Linus Torvalds says that it "looks to be a bigger release" than he expected.

Linux kernel 5.10-rc1 includes 14-15,000 merge commits -- depending on how you count them -- Torvalds notes in his weekly update to the Linux community. He shares the news that, for him, the most interesting change in this release is the removal of the setf_fs() addressing tool.
Torvalds concedes that getting rid of setf_fs() is not exactly an Earth-shattering change, but it is an important one nonetheless.
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You can see his full post -- which includes the full mergelog -- here.
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reasonablePrivacy · Oct 26, 2020

mood said: ↑

release candidate
Linux 5.10 is a bigger kernel release than expected and sees the removal of setf_fs()
October 26, 2020
https://betanews.com/2020/10/26/linux-5-10-kernel-release/
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It's probably not worth to post here about release candidates, because usually there are around 7 rc published before final kernel release. It means that 5.10 is expected to be released around mid-December.
Anyway Linux 5.10 will be interesting release for consumers, because there are improvements for hibernation, ext4 filesystem performance in some use-cases and even memory allocation for GPUs. Linux 5.10 will be a LTS release.

guest · Dec 14, 2020

Linux 5.10 LTS is here as a significant kernel update
December 14, 2020
https://betanews.com/2020/12/14/linux-5-10-lts-released/

Linus Torvalds has official announced the availability of version 5.10 of the Linux kernel. This release is significant not only because of the number of new features and fixes it includes, but also because it is a Long-Term Support (LTS) release that will enjoy five years of maintenance.

In his release notes for Linux 5.10, Torvalds also calls upon developers working on version 5.11 to submit changes in plenty of time for Christmas.
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In a post yesterday, Torvalds says:

"Ok, here it is -- 5.10 is tagged and pushed out. I pretty much always wish that the last week was even calmer than it was, and that's true here too. There's a fair amount of fixes in here, including a few last-minute reverts for things that didn't get fixed, but nothing makes me go "we need another week". Things look fairly normal".
Key changes in this release include a new fix for the Spectre vulnerability, a fix for the year 2038 problem (sort of Y2K all over again) and numerous performance improvements.
But the creator of the Linux kernel is already looking forward. He says: [...]
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reasonablePrivacy · Jan 3, 2021

mood said: ↑

Linux 5.10 LTS is here as a significant kernel update
December 14, 2020
https://betanews.com/2020/12/14/linux-5-10-lts-released/
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There were some important fixes for Device Mapper, F2FS allowing creating files with the same name in same directory in 5.10.1 - 5.10.3. I even saw some claims about 5.10.1 corrupting file F2FS systems. I still stick to 5.9.* series until things get tested in downstream distributions and everything settle down.
Anyway Con Kolivas released updated MuQSS patchset for 5.10 Linux kernel.
https://ck-hack.blogspot.com/2020/12/linux-510-ck1-muqss-version-0205-for.html

guest · Apr 26, 2021

Linus Torvalds: Linux 5.12 is a small release but the next one is going to be bigger
This latest update to the Linux kernel might be modest but includes some new features, and the next update is likely to be larger.
April 26, 2021
https://www.zdnet.com/article/linus...lease-but-the-next-one-is-going-to-be-bigger/

Linus Torvalds announced the arrival of the Linux kernel 5.12 on Sunday, which he flagged as a small update – but one that will be followed by bigger changes in version 5.13.

"Both the shortlog (appended) and the diffstat are absolutely tiny, and it's mainly just a random collection of small fixes in various areas," Torvalds noted.
"Despite the extra week, this was actually a fairly small release overall. Judging by linux-next, 5.13 will be making up for it," wrote Torvalds.
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This kernel version also brings improved support for Lenovo laptop hardware profiles thanks to work from Lenovo and Red Hat engineers. This lets users change a laptop's power and performance levels, which affects thermal and fan-speed behavior.

Torvalds notes that some AMD and Intel i915 GPU fixes "stand out" in this release. The Intel GPU fixes in this version of the kernel refer to an option to disable Intel integrated graphics security mitigations for the so-called iGPU leak.
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Linux 5.12 Released With Intel Xe Variable Rate Refresh, Clang LTO, KFENCE + More
April 25, 2021
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.12-Released

Linux 5.12 brings Intel Variable Rate Refresh (VRR / Adaptive-Sync), Radeon RX 6000 series overclocking support, mainline support for the Nintendo 64, the Sony PlayStation 5 DualSense controller driver, CXL 2.0 Type-3 memory device support, KFENCE, dynamic preemption capabilities, Clang link-time optimizations, laptop support improvements, and much more.

See our complete Linux 5.12 feature overview for a more exhaustive list of the changes of interest to us.

The Linux 5.13 merge window is now open with many changes expected. Linux 5.13 will be a big kernel release that in turn is likely to see the light of day around the end of June.
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guest · Jun 28, 2021

Linux 5.13 Released With Apple M1 Bringup, Landlock, FreeSync HDMI + Much More
June 27, 2021
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.13-Released

Linus Torvalds has just released the Linux 5.13 kernel as stable.
Linux 5.13 was just tagged and is ready to go. The kernel is shipping under the new "Opossums on Parade" codename that was put in place last week.

Linux 5.13 brings initial but still early support for the Apple M1 with basic support but not yet accelerated graphics and a lot more to iron out moving ahead. There are also new Linux 5.13 security features like the Landlock LSM, Clang CFI support, and optionally randomizing the kernel stack offset at each system call. There is also AMD fun this cycle around FreeSync HDMI support, initial Aldebaran bring-up, and more. Intel has more work on Alder Lake, a new cooling driver, and more discrete graphics bring-up. There are also other changes for Linux 5.13 around faster IO_uring, a generic USB display driver, and other new hardware enablement.
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See the top features of Linux 5.13 or the complete Linux 5.13 feature overview.

Update: Linus Torvalds has now posted his 5.13 announcement,

"So we had quite the calm week since rc7, and I see no reason to delay 5.13. The shortlog for the week is tiny, with just 88 non-merge commits (and a few of those are just reverts)...Of course, if the last week was small and calm, 5.13 overall is actually fairly large. In fact, it's one of the bigger 5.x releases, with over 16k commits (over 17k if you count merges), from over 2k developers. But it's a "big all over" kind of thing, not something particular that stands out as particularly unusual."
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guest · Sep 23, 2021

Linux Kernel 5.13 Reaches End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 5.14
September 22, 2021
https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-...e-users-urged-to-upgrade-to-linux-kernel-5-14

Released on June 27th, 2021, Linux kernel 5.13 was one of the bigger releases in the Linux 5.x series with over 16,000 commits contributed by more than 2000 developers. It introduced initial FreeSync HDMI support for AMD GPUs, initial support for Apple’s M1 processor, and support for the Landlock security module.

On September 18th, 2021, renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman published what appeared to be the last maintenance update to the Linux kernel 5.13 series, Linux 5.13.19, saying that the branch is now end-of-life and urging everyone to upgrade to the latest Linux 5.14 kernel series.
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On top of the features mentioned above, Linux kernel 5.14 brings a much-enhanced AMDGPU graphics driver for AMD GPUs, further improvements to the EXT4 file system, new features to the F2FS file system, a new libata subsystem for controlling IDE devices, and much more.
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guest · Oct 31, 2021

Linux 5.15 Released With Initial Intel DG2/Alchemist + Xe HPG Code, New NTFS Driver
October 31, 2021
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.15-Released

Linus Torvalds went ahead and released Linux 5.15 today on Halloween rather than delaying the kernel for another week.

Linux 5.15 has many prominent changes including the introduction of DAMON, the new NTFS file-system driver, initial Xe HPG and DG2/Alchemist support code, Zen 3 APU temperature monitoring, and much more.
See our Linux 5.15 feature list for a more comprehensive overview of the exciting changes this cycle.
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On the kernel mailing list is the brief 5.15 release announcement by Linus Torvalds.
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guest · Nov 1, 2021

Linux 5.15 Is This Year's LTS Kernel
November 1, 2021
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.15-LTS-Kernel

As we approach the end of the calendar year there was some uncertainty whether Linux 5.15 would be this year's Long-Term Support (LTS) kernel or if it would be Linux 5.16 albeit not likely releasing until the start of 2022...

Well, Greg Kroah-Hartman has decided on Linux 5.15 being the LTS kernel for 2021. The Kernel.org release page has been updated to reflect the newly-released Linux 5.15 kernel being an LTS branch.
At the moment the LTS period projects Linux 5.15 LTS to be end-of-life in October 2023.
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If enough users/developers and organizations step up for committing to testing the new point releases and actually using the LTS kernel in production, the LTS period can be extended by several years.
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guest · Nov 1, 2021

GNU Linux-Libre 5.15 Kernel Is Here for Those Who Seek 100% Freedom for Their PCs
November 1, 2021
https://9to5linux.com/gnu-linux-lib...-for-those-who-seek-100-freedom-for-their-pcs

Alexandre Oliva announced today the release and general availability of the GNU Linux-libre 5.15 kernel for those who seek 100% freedom for their GNU/Linux computers.

Based on the Linux 5.15 kernel series, the GNU Linux-libre 5.15 kernel is here to clean up a lot of drivers in an attempt to offer you a pure kernel free of proprietary code. Drivers that needed cleaning up include adreno, btusb, btintel, brcmfmac, and gehc-achc.
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In addition, this release cleans up a new AArch64 qcom variant’s devicetree file, removes cleaning up scripts for the prism54 and rtl8188eu drivers, which were removed upstream in favor of new drivers that need cleaning up too, and it cleans up the mechanism behind the new option to enable -Werror during compilation.

Without further ado, if you want to build a 100% free GNU/Linux computer that doesn’t include proprietary code, you can download and install the GNU Linux-libre 5.15 kernel right now from the official website. You can install it on virtually any free GNU/Linux distribution, but the devs provide ready-to-use binary packages for Debian-based and Red Hat-based distros too.
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guest · Nov 21, 2021

Linux Kernel 5.14 Reached End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Linux 5.15 LTS
November 21, 2021
https://9to5linux.com/linux-kernel-5-14-reached-end-of-life-users-urged-to-upgrade-to-linux-5-15-lts

Linux kernel 5.14 was released almost three months ago, on August 30th, 2021, in celebration of Linux’s 30th anniversary, and it introduced quite some interesting features, starting with better protection against those pesky Spectre vulnerabilities and continuing with much-enhanced support for AMD GPUs.

Today, November 21st, renowned Linux kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced the release of Linux kernel 5.14.21 as the twenty-first maintenance update and also the last in the series. Yes, that’s right, Linux 5.14 is now marked as EOL (End of Life) on the kernel.org website and it will no longer be supported.
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The good news, however, is that you’ll be upgrading to the recently released Linux 5.15 kernel, which is an LTS (Long-Term Support) series supported for at least a couple of years, until Octomber 2023.
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guest · Dec 27, 2021

Linux 5.16 is great news for AMD Ryzen users, massive performance boosts incoming
December 27, 2021

Linux 5.16 is looking extremely promising for AMD Ryzen, at least for the APUs. In a recent comparison test conducted by Phoronix, the tested Ryzen APUs have shown up to a 28% performance boost over kernel 5.15. This 28% boost was captured in the Xonotic game at 4K resolution using low settings (image below). Other games and benchmarks have also shown significant improvements on Linux 5.16 in the range of around 10-20% on average.

This first set of tests was carried out on a Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen2 laptop with Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. The 5850U is a Zen 3-based octa-core processor with 16 threads belonging to the AMD Cezanne APU lineup.
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Phoronix speculates the performance gain noted may be due to a combination of CPU-specific optimizations, among other things, for this kind of performance improvement. The site says:

This improvement with Linux 5.16 was fascinating and came unexpected. Linux 5.16 has many new features including AMDGPU kernel driver improvements, but this Radeon Vega graphics boost came as a surprise as there wasn't any announced optimization and the Vega graphics support at this stage is quite mature. It may also be a combination of CPU-related improvements with Linux 5.16.

Source and images: Phoronix
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guest · Jan 9, 2022

Linux 5.16 Released With Many Intel & AMD Additions, Memory Folios, AMX, FUTEX2
January 9, 2022

As expected the Linux 5.16 kernel has been promoted to stable.

Linux 5.16 has many new features including the FUTEX2 futex_waitv system call for helping Steam Play (and Wine), memory folios have been mainlined, AMD Ryzen 6000 mobile series support is getting into better shape, Intel Alder Lake S graphics are now considered stable, Intel AMX support for Sapphire Rapids has landed, big AMD Ryzen with Radeon graphics performance improvements, and a wealth of other hardware improvements.
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See our Linux 5.16 feature overview for the lengthy list of big changes to find in Linux 5.16.

Linus Torvalds wrote in tonight's announcement,

"Not a lot here since -rc8, which is not unexpected. We had that extra week due to the holidays, and it's not like we had lots of last-minute things that needed to be sorted out. So this mainly contains some driver fixes (mainly networking and rdma), a cgroup credential use fix, a few core networking fixes, a couple of last-minute reverts, and some other random noise."
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guest · Mar 14, 2022

Linux 5.17 Pushed Back Due To The New Spectre Attack, Other Headaches
March 13, 2022

Linus Torvalds was hoping to release the stable Linux 5.17 kernel today but instead opted for Linux 5.17-rc8 as an extra release candidate.

Torvalds explained in today's 5.17-rc8 announcement that due to new Spectre attacks a wide assortment of other fixes, he felt more comfortable issuing an "-rc8" rather than going straight to final. As such, Linux 5.17 is now planned for release next weekend, 20 March. The new Spectre issues this week are BHI / Spectre-BHB as a derivative of Spectre V2 and affecting Intel and Arm CPUs. There is also a fundamental change to AMD's Spectre V2 handling.
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Linus wrote in the 5.17-rc8 announcement: [...]
See our Linux 5.17 feature overview to learn more about what is coming next week with Linux 5.17.
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Linux Kernel 5.17 Delayed by a Week to Tackle Spectre v2 Exploit
March 14, 2022

With last-minute Spectre fixes, Linux Kernel 5.17 release was delayed while restarting the automated testing process.
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guest · Mar 21, 2022

Linux Kernel 5.17 Officially Released, This Is What’s New
March 20, 2022

Linus Torvalds today announced the release and general availability of Linux 5.17 as the latest and greatest kernel series for Linux-based operating systems adding new features and improving hardware support.
A little over two months after the release of Linux kernel 5.16, the Linux 5.17 kernel series is here to introduce even more new features, such as a new “AMD P-State” subsystem for future AMD CPUs that to provide a performance boost, a revamped fscache subsystem, as well as a new “page-table check” feature to better protect your GNU/Linux system from certain threats by detecting some types of corruption and automatically shutting down the system.
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As usual, numerous drivers have been updated and new ones were added to offer you the best possible hardware support for your GNU/Linux distribution. Noteworthy additions include support for AMD Renoir audio DSPs, Intel’s new “platform firmware runtime update” driver for rebootless updating of parts of the system firmware, and much more.

“Of course, this means that the merge window for 5.18 will be open starting tomorrow, and I already have about a dozen pull requests waiting in my inbox. I appreciate the early pull requests: it gives me that warm and fuzzy feeling of “this was all ready in plenty of time”,” said Linus Torvalds. “Judging by the statistics in linux-next, it looks like 5.18 will be a bit bigger than 5.17 was, but hopefully without some of the drama.”
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guest · Aug 1, 2022

Linux Kernel 5.19 Officially Released, Linus Torvalds Teases Linux 6.0 as Next Kernel Series
July 31, 2022

Linus Torvalds announced today the release and general availability of the Linux 5.19 kernel series as a major branch that brings more new features, improved hardware support, and lots of bug and security fixes.

After being in development for more than two months, Linux kernel 5.19 is finally here and introduces support for ZSTD-compressed firmware files, support for AMD’s Secure Nested Paging feature, a new user-space API for managing MultiPath TCP (MPTCP) flows, initial support for Loongson’s “LoongArch” RISC ISA CPU architecture, as well as support for the ARM Scalable Matrix Extension (SME).
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Those of you who like to compile kernels can download Linux 5.19’s source tarball right now from the kernel.org website. Everyone else would have to wait for their distribution’s maintainer to upgrade the kernel(s) to version 5.19 before attempting to update their installations to the new Linux kernel series.
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guest · Aug 1, 2022

Linux 5.20 Likely To Be Called Linux 6.0
August 1, 2022

In case you missed it in yesterday's Linux 5.19 announcement and to avoid reader questions/confusion in the days ahead, just making it loud and clear here: what was referred to as the Linux 5.20 kernel in development will most likely be called Linux 6.0.

In Sunday's Linux 5.19 announcement, he indicated that the next kernel version will likely be 6.0.
Torvalds remarked, "I'll likely call it 6.0 since I'm starting to worry about getting confused by big numbers again."
So all the excitement around the big features coming for Linux 5.20 will likely be christened as Linux 6.0.
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guest · Aug 21, 2022

Linux Kernel 5.18 Reaches End of Life, Users Urged to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 5.19
August 21, 2022

Released at the end of May 2022, Linux kernel 5.18 is yet another short-lived kernel series. It introduced new features like support for “user events” in the tracing system, support for AMD’s “host system management port” function, support for 64-bit integrity checksums on NVMe devices, support for Intel’s “hardware feedback interface” feature, as well as indirect branch tracking support for the x86 architecture.

Renowned kernel developer Greg Kroah-Hartman announced today the release of Linux kernel 5.18.19, which appears to be a very small patch that only includes 6 changes. What’s most important is that Linux kernel 5.18.19 is also the last maintenance release to the Linux 5.17 kernel series, which now reached end of life and will no longer receive security and bugfix updates.

“I’m announcing the release of the 5.18.19 kernel. Note, this is the LAST 5.18.y kernel to be released. This branch is now end-of-life. Please move to 5.19.y at this point in time,” said Greg Kroah-Hartman in a mailing list announcement.
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