Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.11 Release Candidate

Posted by hanuca on Jul 29, 2024 12:41 PM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marius Nestor
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Linus Torvalds announced today the general availability for public testing of the first Release Candidate (RC) development milestone of the upcoming Linux 6.11 kernel series.

Linux kernel 6.11 is expected to bring things like a new driver subsystem to enable support upstream for Bluetooth/WLAN chips on Qualcomm platforms, getrandom() support to vDSO on x86 systems adding a new kind of mapping to mmap(2) that lets the kernel zero out pages anytime under memory pressure, virtual CPU hotplug support for AArch64 (ARM64) ACPI systems, and a new mechanism to create interrupt domains.

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