Kernel Watch
Jon Masters keeps up with all the latest happenings in the Linux kernel, so you don’t have to.
Linus Torvalds announced one of the final Release Candidates for what will be Linux 6.7 (-rc5), making us on track to start the new year with a shiny new 6.7 kernel, and the corresponding twoweek merge window for new features that will eventually stabilise into 6.8.
Just in time for the new year, the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) is moving servers as vger.kernel.org is finally decommissioned. Hopefully folks won’t notice the transition to modern infrastructure.
That was 2023
2023 was another very busy year in the Linux community. It started with the Linux 6.2 kernel cycle, the first to include baseline useful bits of Rust language support.