The 6.8 kernel has been released

Linus has released the 6.8 kernel.

So it took a bit longer for the commit counts to come down thisrelease than I tend to prefer, but a lot of that seemed to be aboutvarious selftest updates (networking in particular) rather than anyactual real sign of problems. And the last two weeks have beenpretty quiet, so I feel there's no real reason to delay 6.8.

Significant changes in this release includethe deadline servers scheduling feature,support for memory-managementauto-tuning in DAMON,the large anonymous folios feature,the kernelsamepage merging advisor,the ability to prevent writes to blockdevices containing mounted filesystems,the listmount() andstatmount() system calls,the firstdevice driver written in Rust,the removalof the (never finished) bpfilterpacket-filtering system,three new system calls for managing Linuxsecurity modules,the BPF token mechanism for fine-grainedcontrol over BPF permissions,support for data-type profiling in theperf tool,guest-first memory for KVM virtualization,the Intel Xe graphics driver,and a lot more. See the LWN merge-window summaries(part1,part2) for more information.