• The 6.13 kernel has been released

    From LWN.net@1337:1/100 to All on Mon Jan 20 00:45:04 2025
    The 6.13 kernel has been released

    Date:
    Mon, 20 Jan 2025 00:39:14 +0000

    Description:
    Linus has tagged and
    released the 6.13 kernel , though no announcement has been posted yet
    (check back for updates on that). Significant features in this release include the lazy preemption model for CPU
    scheduling,
    Arm64 Guarded
    Control Stack support,
    the PIDFD_GET_INFO() operation , multi-grain
    file timestamps ,
    beginning atomic write support for the ext4
    and XFS filesystems,
    the setxattrat() , getxattrat() , listxattrat() ,
    and removexattrat() system calls, private
    stacks for BPF programs, a
    new mechanism for adding guard pages to a memory mapping,
    the removal of the reiserfs filesystem,
    and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries ( part1 , part2 ) and the KernelNewbies 6.13 page for more information.

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    Link to news story:
    https://lwn.net/Articles/1005488/


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