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Linux 6.11 Released


The 6.11 kernel has been released Linus has released the 6.11 kernel. " I'm once again on the road and not in my normal timezone, but it's Sunday afternoon here in Vienna, and 6.11 is out." Significant changes in this release include new io_uring operations for bind() and listen(), the nested bottom-half locking patches, the ability to write to busy executable files, support for writing block drivers in Rust, support for atomic write operations in the block layer, the dedicated bucket slab allocator, the vDSO implementation of getrandom(), and more.

[Posted September 15, 2024 by corbet] Linus has released the 6.11 kernel. " I'm once again on the road and not in my normal timezone, but it's Sunday afternoon here in Vienna, and 6.11 is out." Significant changes in this release include new io_uring operations for bind() and listen(), the nested bottom-half locking patches, the ability to write to busy executable files, support for writing block drivers in Rust, support for atomic write operations in the block layer, the dedicated bucket slab allocator, the vDSO implementation of getrandom(), and more.

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