The 6.18 kernel has been released

Linus has released the 6.18 kernel, as expected.

So I'll have to admit that I'd have been happier with slightly lessbugfixing noise in this last week of the release, but while there'sa few more fixes than I would hope for, there was nothing that mademe feel like this needs more time to cook. So 6.18 is tagged andpushed out.

Headline changes in this release includethe abilityto manage namespaces with file handles,support for the AccECNcongestion-control protocol,initial support for signing of BPFprograms,improved memory management with sheaves,the Rust binder driver,better control over transparent hugepages,and a lot more.This release also saw the removalof the bcachefs filesystem.

See the LWN merge-window summaries (part1, part2)and the KernelNewbies 6.18page for more information.