The 5.6 kernel has been released

Linus has released the 5.6 kernel.

Some of the headline features in this release includeArm EOPD support,time namespaces,the BPF dispatcher and batched BPF map operations (both described in this article),the openat2() system call,the WireGuard virtual private networkimplementation,the flow queue PIE packetscheduler,nearly complete year-2038 support,many new io_uring features,the pidfd_getfd() system call,the ZoneFS filesystem,the ability to implement TCPcongestion-control algorithms in BPF,the dma-buf heaps subsystem,and the removal of the /dev/randomblocking pool.

See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1 and part 2) and the (under construction) KernelNewbies 5.6 pagefor more details.