Article 6FZGA The 6.6 kernel has been released

The 6.6 kernel has been released

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Linus has released the 6.6 kernel. "Sothis last week has been pretty calm, and I have absolutely no excuses todelay the v6.6 release any more, so here it is."

Headline features in 6.6 include the earliesteligible virtual deadline first (EEVDF) CPU scheduler, a number ofenhancements (quota support, user extended attributes, direct I/O) to thetmpfs filesystem, the fchmodat2()system call, initial support for building akernel without buffer-head support, the kmalloc() randomness patches, user-space shadow stacks for Intel CPUs, andquite a bit more. See the LWN merge window summaries (part1, part2) and the KernelNewbies 6.6 page formore information.

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