Linux Kernel 6.5 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Posted by hanuca on Aug 27, 2023 11:31 PM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor
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Just a couple of days after celebrating its 32nd anniversary, Linus Torvalds announced today the final release of the Linux 6.5 kernel series as a major update that introduces several new features, updated and new drivers for better hardware support, and other changes.

After seven weeks of RCs, Linux kernel 6.5 is here with new features like MIDI 2.0 support in ALSA, ACPI support for the RISC-V architecture, Landlock support for UML (User-Mode Linux), better support for AMD “Zen” systems, as well as user-space support for the ARMv8.8 memcpy/memset instructions.

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