Kernel Watch
Jon Masters keeps up with all the latest happenings in the Linux kernel, so you don’t have to.
Linus Torvalds announced the release of several Linux 6.7 RC (Release Candidate) kernels, noting in his -rc1 announcement message how big this release already is relative to many “historically big releases”. The main reason for this is the removal of support for the ia64 (Itanium) architecture that we’ve covered previously and people knew was coming for some time. Among the other contributions to 6.7 are support for the (highly opinionated) bcachefs (“the COW [Copy On Write] filesystem for Linux that won’t eat your data”), and the ability to disable emulation of 32-bit system calls on 64-bit x86 systems.