{"id":1197700,"date":"2023-10-30T08:43:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T12:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1197700"},"modified":"2023-10-30T08:43:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T12:43:41","slug":"the-6-6-kernel-has-been-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1197700","title":{"rendered":"The 6.6 kernel has been released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Linus has <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/949204\/\">released the 6.6 kernel<\/a>.  &#8220;<q>So<br \/>\nthis last week has been pretty calm, and I have absolutely no excuses to<br \/>\ndelay the v6.6 release any more, so here it is.<\/q>&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nHeadline features in 6.6 include the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/925371\/\">earliest<br \/>\neligible virtual deadline first (EEVDF) CPU scheduler<\/a>, a number of<br \/>\nenhancements (quota support, user extended attributes, direct I\/O) to the<br \/>\ntmpfs filesystem, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/939217\/\"><tt>fchmodat2()<\/tt><br \/>\nsystem call<\/a>, initial support for <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/930173\/\">building a<br \/>\nkernel without buffer-head support<\/a>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/938637\/\"><tt>kmalloc()<\/tt> randomness<\/a> patches, <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/926649\/\">user-space shadow stacks<\/a> for Intel CPUs, and<br \/>\nquite a bit more.  See the LWN merge window summaries (<a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/942954\/\">part\u00a01<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/943245\/\">part\u00a02<\/a>) and the <a href=\"https:\/\/kernelnewbies.org\/Linux_6.6\">KernelNewbies 6.6 page<\/a> for<br \/>\nmore information.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: LWN.net &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/lwn.net\/Articles\/949179\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The 6.6 kernel has been released<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linus has released the 6.6 kernel. &#8220;So this last week has been pretty calm, and I have absolutely no excuses to delay the v6.6 release any more, so here it is.&#8221; Headline features in 6.6 include the earliest eligible virtual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1197700\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-1197700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1197700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1197700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1197700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1197700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1197700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}