The 6.17 kernel has been released

Linus Torvalds has released the 6.17 kernel. He notes that the shortlog for the changes since -rc7 are pretty tame:

It's not exciting, which is all good. I think thebiggest patch in there is some locking fixes for some bluetooth racesthat could cause use-after-free situations. Whee - that's about asexciting as it gets.

Other than that, there' the usual driver fixlets (GPU and networkingdominate as usual, but "dominate" is still pretty small), there's someminor random other driver updates, some filesystem noise, and corekernel and mm.

And some selftest updates.

Significant features in this release includebetter control over x86 Spectremitigations,live patching support on 64-bit Arm platforms,a number of pidfdimprovements,the removal of special support foruniprocessor systems,initial support for proxy execution,experimental large-folio support in the Btrfs filesystem,the file_getattr()and file_setattr() system calls, andsupport for the DualPI2congestion-control protocol.

See the LWN merge-window summaries (part1, part2) for more information.In addition, KernelNewbies has a look at the changes that went into 6.17.