Linus Torvalds heeft versie 7.1 van de Linux Kernel vrijgegeven. De kernel is het hart van het besturingssysteem en zit, simpel gezegd, als laag tussen de hardware en de applicaties in. De nieuwe uitgave bevat de gebruikelijke hoeveelheid aan verbeteringen. Meer informatie kan bij 9to5Linux, OMG Ubuntu en Phoronix worden gevonden.
Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released, Here’s What’s NewLinux kernel 7.1 is now available for download, as announced today by Linus Torvalds himself, featuring enhanced hardware support, filesystem and networking improvements, security enhancements, and many other changes.
Probably the biggest change of the Linux 7.1 kernel series is a new NTFS file system implementation, which has been in the works for the last 4 years, featuring full write support with delayed allocation, iomap, and folio integration to improve write performance, better stability, and a new suite of userspace utilities called ntfsprogs-plus.
Linux kernel 7.1 also introduces a new Landlock access right for pathname UNIX domain sockets, thanks to a new LSM hook, improvements to the amd-pstate and intel_idle drivers for better power management, and support for the exFAT file system to preallocate clusters without zeroing to reduce file fragmentation.
Among other changes, Linux kernel 7.1 enables Intel’s Flexible Return and Event Delivery (FRED) feature by default, introduces CPU Memory (CMEM) Latency PMU support for NVIDIA Tegra410 SoCs, adds BPF fsession support for the IBM System/390 architecture, and adds seccomp() support to the Alpha architecture.
Also worth mentioning is that the ublk user-space block driver received a UBLK_F_SHMEM_ZC feature flag for zero-copy I/O, the CIFS client file system received support for the O_TMPFILE option to create temporary files, and the Ceph file system now has a complete infrastructure for per-subvolume I/O metrics collection and reporting to the MDS.
On top of that, Linux kernel 7.1 adds support for generating and verifying T10 protection information at the file system level, extends support for TCG Storage Opal SSC Single User Mode (SUM) in the sed-opal kernel interface, implements BPF support into the io_uring subsystem, and adds support for multiple tuning algorithms to the DAMON subsystem.
Some USB/Thunderbolt driver changes are present as well in Linux 7.1 via new USB power supply driver support, dwc3 driver updates, and the additions of new hardware support. Of course, there are also many sound and networking improvements, EXT4 and F2FS improvements, AMDGPU and i915 GPU driver improvements, and much more.
You can download Linux kernel 7.1 right now directly from Linus Torvald’s git tree or from the kernel.org website if you want to compile it on your GNU/Linux distribution. However, I recommend waiting for the new Linux release to land in your distro’s stable software repositories before updating your kernel.
Now that Linux kernel 7.1 is out, the merge window will soon open for the next major kernel series, Linux 7.2, which is expected in mid or late August 2026. Until then, the first Linux 7.2 Release Candidate (RC) will be available for public testing in two weeks, on June 28th, 2026.
Source: Tweakers.net