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Linux 6.17 Released: Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics Ready, New Optimizations
As expected, Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.17 kernel on-schedule as the kernel version powering Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora 43, and other upcoming Linux distribution releases and rolling releases.
As expected, Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.17 kernel on-schedule as the kernel version powering Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora 43, and other upcoming Linux distribution releases and rolling releases. Linux 6.17 delivers many exciting improvements including Attack Vector Controls, Intel Panther Lake Xe3 graphics declared stable, various Intel graphics driver improvements for Project Battlematrix, mainline Raspberry Pi RP1 support, the Intel IPU7 driver, EXT4 scalability improvements, various other performance optimizations, and much more. It's a solid release and showing some nice performance improvements.
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