The 6.16 kernel is out
Linus has released the 6.16 kernel:
It's Sunday afternoon, and the release cycle has come to an end. Lastweek was nice and calm, and there were no big show-stopper surprisesto keep us from the regular schedule, so I've tagged and pushed out6.16 as planned.
Headline changes in this release includeenabling five-level page tables by defaulton x86 systems,a number of core-dump changes includingthe ability to send core dumps to a socket,the ability to createpipes in io_uring,atomic-write support in the XFSfilesystem,the elimination of block-layer bouncebuffering,a new DMA-mapping API,an option to block file descriptors passedin via Unix-domain sockets,and more.
See the LWN merge-window summaries (part1, part2) and the KernelNewbies 6.16 page formore information.