The 6.17 kernel has been released

Date:
Sun, 28 Sep 2025 23:27:43 +0000

Description:
Linus Torvalds has released the 6.17 kernel. He notes that the shortlog for the changes since -rc7 are pretty tame: It's not exciting, which is all good. I think the
biggest patch in there is some locking fixes for some bluetooth races
that could cause use-after-free situations. Whee - that's about as
exciting as it gets. Other than that, there' the usual driver fixlets (GPU
and networking
dominate as usual, but "dominate" is still pretty small), there's some
minor random other driver updates, some filesystem noise, and core
kernel and mm. And some selftest updates. Significant features in this
release include better control over x86 Spectre
mitigations,
live patching support on 64-bit Arm platforms,
a number of pidfd
improvements ,
the removal of special support for
uniprocessor systems, initial support for proxy execution,
experimental large-folio support in the Btrfs filesystem,
the file_getattr() and file_setattr() system calls , and
support for the DualPI2
congestion-control protocol . See the LWN merge-window summaries
( part1 , part2 ) for more information.
In addition, KernelNewbies has a look at the changes that went into 6.17.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1038266/


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