After a really thrilling two weeks, the merge window for Linux 6.7 is now wrapped up and Linus Torvalds has revealed Linux 6.7-rc1 as the primary launch candidate main as much as the steady launch across the finish of the calendar yr.
The Linux 6.7 merge window was very thrilling and actually the most important characteristic merge window each on a commit foundation in addition to within the traces of code added and eliminated. Linux 6.7 provides the brand new Bcachefs experimental file-system, preliminary NVIDIA GSP assist for the Nouveau driver to enhance RTX 20 sequence and newer assist, the Intel Itanium (IA-64) structure was faraway from the mainline kernel, extra early enablement work on Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake, and far more. Keep tuned for my extra exhaustive Linux 6.7 characteristic overview to be revealed within the subsequent day or two.
In at this time’s Linux 6.7-rc1 announcement, Linus Torvalds commented:
“In variety of commits, that is the largest merge window we have ever had, with 15.4k non-merge commits. That’s fairly a bit larger than the earlier greatest releases (4.9, 5.8 and 5.13) that every one weighted in at about 14.2k non-merge commits.
Now, a part of that’s clearly the bcachefs merge, which introduced in a variety of commits as a result of it included the total historical past. However 6.7 is fairly huge in different methods too.”
Keep tuned for my Linux 6.7 characteristic overview and following up with varied Linux 6.7 kernel benchmarks over the approaching days and weeks on Phoronix.
