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From the post:
>The Linux 7.0 kernel is gearing up for its stable release and should be out this coming Sunday, 12 April, barring any major last minute issues.
Linux 7.0 is coming with Linus Torvalds preferring to bump the major kernel version after x.19, as opposed to being driven by any particular features/changes or breakage. In any event with Linux 7.0 as with most kernel cycles there is quite a lot of new features and changes to get excited about. Ahead of Sunday's release, here is a reminder about some of the most notable changes to look forward to with Linux 7.0:
- Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) now defaults to "auto" mode on Intel TSX-capable CPUs without any known TSX security issues, which will be able to help with out-of-the-box performance compared to the prior off-by-default mode.
- Some nice performance optimizations seen on AMD EPYC, thanks in part to scheduler scalability enhancements, memory management performance optimizations, and other Linux 7.0 kernel optimizations..
- Initial hardware enablement for some upcoming AMD Radeon graphics hardware.
Archive: https://archive.today/SNDWd
From the post:
>>The Linux 7.0 kernel is gearing up for its stable release and should be out this coming Sunday, 12 April, barring any major last minute issues.
Linux 7.0 is coming with Linus Torvalds preferring to bump the major kernel version after x.19, as opposed to being driven by any particular features/changes or breakage. In any event with Linux 7.0 as with most kernel cycles there is quite a lot of new features and changes to get excited about. Ahead of Sunday's release, here is a reminder about some of the most notable changes to look forward to with Linux 7.0:
- Intel Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) now defaults to "auto" mode on Intel TSX-capable CPUs without any known TSX security issues, which will be able to help with out-of-the-box performance compared to the prior off-by-default mode.
- Some nice performance optimizations seen on AMD EPYC, thanks in part to scheduler scalability enhancements, memory management performance optimizations, and other Linux 7.0 kernel optimizations..
- Initial hardware enablement for some upcoming AMD Radeon graphics hardware.