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The 6.13 kernel has been released

Linus has <a href="https://git.kernel.org/linus/ffd294d346d1"; rel="nofollow">tagged and
released the 6.13 kernel</a>, though no announcement has been posted yet
(check back for updates on that).



Significant features in this release include
the https://lwn.net/Articles/994322/
for CPU
scheduling,
Arm64 <a href="https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/arch/arm64/gcs.html"; rel="nofollow">Guarded
Control Stack</a> support,
the https://lwn.net/Articles/992991/
,
<a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6ac81fd55e8a"; rel="nofollow">multi-grain
file timestamps</a>,
beginning https://lwn.net/Articles/974578/
support for the ext4
and XFS filesystems,
the setxattrat(), getxattrat(), listxattrat(),
and removexattrat() system calls,
<a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c1bc51f85cd6"; rel="nofollow">private
stacks</a> for BPF programs,
<a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=662df3e5c376"; rel="nofollow">a
new mechanism</a> for adding guard pages to a memory mapping,
the removal of the reiserfs filesystem,
and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (https://lwn.net/Articles/998623/

for more information.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1005488/