The 5.6 kernel has been released
([Kernel] Mar 29, 2020 23:04 UTC (Sun) (corbet))
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Linus has [1]released the 5.6 kernel.
Some of the headline features in this release include [2]Arm EOPD support , [3]time namespaces , the BPF dispatcher and batched BPF map operations (both described in [4]this article ), the [5]openat2() system call , the [6]WireGuard virtual private network implementation, the [7]flow queue PIE packet scheduler , nearly complete year-2038 support, many [8]new io_uring features , the [9]pidfd_getfd() system call , the [10]ZoneFS filesystem, the [11]ability to implement TCP congestion-control algorithms in BPF, the [12]dma-buf heaps subsystem, and the [13]removal of the /dev/random blocking pool.
See the LWN merge-window summaries ( [14]part 1 and [15]part 2 ) and the (under construction) [16]KernelNewbies 5.6 page for more details.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/816216/
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/804982/
[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/766089/
[4] https://lwn.net/Articles/808503/
[5] https://lwn.net/Articles/796868/
[6] https://lwn.net/Articles/802376/
[7] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8033
[8] https://lwn.net/Articles/810414/
[9] https://lwn.net/Articles/808997/
[10] https://lwn.net/Articles/794364/
[11] https://lwn.net/Articles/811631/
[12] https://lwn.net/Articles/792733/
[13] https://lwn.net/Articles/808575/
[14] https://lwn.net/Articles/810780/
[15] https://lwn.net/Articles/811230/
[16] https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.6
Some of the headline features in this release include [2]Arm EOPD support , [3]time namespaces , the BPF dispatcher and batched BPF map operations (both described in [4]this article ), the [5]openat2() system call , the [6]WireGuard virtual private network implementation, the [7]flow queue PIE packet scheduler , nearly complete year-2038 support, many [8]new io_uring features , the [9]pidfd_getfd() system call , the [10]ZoneFS filesystem, the [11]ability to implement TCP congestion-control algorithms in BPF, the [12]dma-buf heaps subsystem, and the [13]removal of the /dev/random blocking pool.
See the LWN merge-window summaries ( [14]part 1 and [15]part 2 ) and the (under construction) [16]KernelNewbies 5.6 page for more details.
[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/816216/
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/804982/
[3] https://lwn.net/Articles/766089/
[4] https://lwn.net/Articles/808503/
[5] https://lwn.net/Articles/796868/
[6] https://lwn.net/Articles/802376/
[7] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8033
[8] https://lwn.net/Articles/810414/
[9] https://lwn.net/Articles/808997/
[10] https://lwn.net/Articles/794364/
[11] https://lwn.net/Articles/811631/
[12] https://lwn.net/Articles/792733/
[13] https://lwn.net/Articles/808575/
[14] https://lwn.net/Articles/810780/
[15] https://lwn.net/Articles/811230/
[16] https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_5.6