After two months of development, Linus Torvalds presented nuclear nuclea linux 6.7 . Among the most noticeable changes: the integration of FS BCACHEFS, the termination of itanium architecture, the ability to operate Nouvea with GSP-R firmware, support for TLS-shifting in NVMe-TCP, the possibility of using exceptions in BPF, support for FUTEX in IO_ARING, optimization of the FQ planner (FAIR QUEUR ), support for the expansion of TCP-AO (TCP Authentication Option) and the possibility of limiting network connections in the Landlock protection mechanism.
18405 of the development of 2066 developers were adopted in the new version,
The size of the patch is 72 MB (the changes touched 13467 files, 906147 lines of code were added, 341048 lines were removed). In the last issue, there were 15291 corrections from 2058 developers, the size of the patch was 39 MB. About 45% of all changes presented in 6.7 are related to devices drivers, approximately 14% of the changes are related to updating the code specific for hardware architectures, 13% are associated with network stacks, 5% with file systems and 3% with the internal nucleus subsystems.
main innovation In the nucleus 6.7: