• The 6.15 kernel has been released

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Mon May 26 05:00:06 2025
    The 6.15 kernel has been released

    Date:
    Mon, 26 May 2025 03:44:19 +0000

    Description:
    Linus has released the 6.15 kernel, as
    expected. So this was delayed by a couple of hours because of a last-minute
    bug report resulting in one new feature being disabled at the
    eleventh hour, but 6.15 is out there now. Significant changes in 6.15 include smarter timer-ID assignment to make
    checkpoint/restore operations more reliable, the ability to read status information from a pidfd after the process in question has
    been reaped, the PIDFD_SELF special pidfd value, nested
    ID-mapped mounts , zero-copy network-data reception via io_uring, The ability to read epoll events via io_uring, resilient
    queued spinlocks for BPF programs, guard-page enhancements allowing them to be placed in file-backed memory areas and for user space to detect their
    presence, the once-controversial fwctl
    subsystem , the optional sealing of some
    system mappings , and much more. See the LWN merge-window summaries ( part1 , part2 ) and the in-progress KernelNewbies 6.15 page for
    more information.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1022457/


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