Linux 5.11 was released on Sun, 14 Feb 2021 Summary: This release adds supports for a new mechanism that lets software like wine handle windows syscalls in a much faster and clean manner; support for unprivileged overlayfs mounts; support for Intel SGX enclaves; support for upcoming AMD and Intel graphics hardware; faster performance and data recovery options in Btrfs; support for re-exporting via

Linux 5.2 was released on 7 July 2019. Summary: This release includes Sound Open Firmware, a project that brings open source firmware to DSP audio devices; open firmware for many Intel products is also included. This release also improves the Pressure Stall Information resource monitoring to make it usable by Android; the mount API has been redesigned with new syscalls; the BFQ I/O scheduler has g

Linux 5.1 released on 5 May 2019 Summary: This release includes io_uring, an high-performance interface for asynchronous I/O; it also adds improvements in fanotify to provide a scalable way of watching changes on large file systems; it adds a method to allow safe delivery of signals in presence of PID reuse; persistent memory can be used now as hot-plugabble RAM; Zstd compression levels have been

Linux 4.18 has been released on 12 August, 2018. Summary: This release includes the new "Restartable sequences" system call, which makes easier to write scalable userspace code; support for unprivileged mounts; the beginning of bpfilter project that aims to provide netfilter functionality using BPF; a zero-copy TCP receive API; a new AF_XDP address family for high performance networking; support f

Linux 4.20 was released on Sun, 23 Dec 2018. Summary: This release includes support for a new way to measure the system load; it adds support for future AMD Radeon Picasso and Raven2 and enables non-experimental support for Radeon Vega20; it adds support for the C-SKY CPU architecture and the x86 Hygon Dhyana CPUs; a TLB microoptimization brings a small performance win in some workloads; TCP has s

Linux 4.19 was released on Monday, 22 October. Summary: This release adds: the CAKE network queue management to fight bufferbloat, it is designed to fight intended to squeeze the most bandwidth and latency out of even the slowest ISP links and routers; support for guaranteeing minimum I/O latency targets for cgroups; experimental support for the future Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax-drafts); memory usage for o

Linux 4.17 has been released on 3 June 2018. Summary: This release adds support for AMD Radeon Vega 12 and it enables the "display code" by default in supported AMD Radeon GPUs; it also adds a kernel TLS receive path; a more efficient idle loop that prevent CPUs from spending too much time in shallow idle states; eight unmaintained architectures have been removed and another, the Andes NDS32 archi

Changes done in each Linux kernel release. Other places to get news about the Linux kernel are LWN kernel status or the Linux Kernel mailing list (there is a web interface in www.lkml.org or lore.kernel.org/lkml). The lore.kernel.org/lkml/ archive is also available via NTTP if you prefer to use a newsreader: use nntp://nntp.lore.kernel.org/org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel for that. List of changes of

Linux 4.14 has been released on 12 Nov 2017. Summary: This release includes support for bigger memory limits in x86 hardware (128PiB of virtual address space, 4PiB of physical address space); support for AMD Secure Memory Encryption; a new unwinder that provides better kernel traces and a smaller kernel size; a cgroups "thread mode" that allows resource distribution across the threads of a group o

Linux 3.13 was released on Sun, 19 Jan 2014. Summary: This release includes nftables, the successor of iptables, a revamp of the block layer designed for high-performance SSDs, a power capping framework to cap power consumption in Intel RAPL devices, improved squashfs performance, AMD Radeon power management enabled by default and automatic Radeon GPU switching, improved NUMA performance, improved

Kernelnewbies is a community of aspiring Linux kernel developers who work to improve their Kernels and more experienced developers willing to share their knowledge. Kernelnewbies can be found on the MailingList, IRC (irc.oftc.net #kernelnewbies), and this wiki. Outreachy Potential Outreachy applicants, please go to the Outreachyfirstpatch. ChangeLog A human readable changelog for the Linux kernel

Linux 4.10 was released on 19 Feb 2017. Summary: This release adds support for virtualized GPUs, a new 'perf c2c' tool for cacheline contention analysis in NUMA systems, a new 'perf sched timehist' command for a detailed history of task scheduling, improved writeback management that should make the system more responsive under heavy writing load, a new hybrid block polling method that uses less CP

This is a list of links to every changelog. 6.0 Linux_6.9 Released Sunday, 12 May 2024 (63 days) Linux_6.8 Released Sunday, 10 March 2024 (63 days) Linux_6.7 Released Sunday, 7 January 2024 (70 days) Linux_6.6 Released Sunday, 29 Oct 2023 (63 days) Linux_6.5 Released Sunday, 27 August 2023 (63 days) Linux_6.4 Released Sunday, 25 June 2023 (63 days) Linux_6.3 Released Sunday, 23 April 2023 (63 days