Article 6915P The 6.2 kernel has been released

The 6.2 kernel has been released

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corbet
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Linus has released the 6.2 kernel asexpected.

Please do give 6.2 a testing. Maybe it's not a sexy LTS releaselike 6.1 ended up being, but all those regular pedestrian kernelswant some test love too.

Headline features in this release includethe ability to manage linkedlists and other data structures in BPF programs,more additions to the kernel's Rustinfrastructure,improvements in Btrfs RAID5/6 reliability,IPv6 protectiveload balancing,faster "Retbleed" mitigation with return stackbuffer stuffing,control-flow integrity improvements with FineIBT,oops limits,and more.

See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 6.2 pagefor more information.

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