The 5.12 kernel has been released

Linus Torvalds has released the 5.12kernel. "Thanks to everybody who made last week very calm indeed, which justmakes me feel much happier about the final 5.12 release."Headline features in 5.12 includethe removal of a number of obsolete, (mostly) 32-bit Arm subarchitectures,atomicinstructions for BPF,conditional file lookups with LOOKUP_CACHED,support for zoned block devices in the Btrfsfilesystem, threaded NAPI polling in the network stack,filesystem ID mapping,support for building the kernel with Clang link-timeoptimization,the KFENCEkernel-debugging tool, and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries(part 1, part 2) and the (in-progress) KernelNewbies 5.12 page formore information.