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Linux 6.12 Released With Real-Time Capabilities, Sched_Ext, More AMD RDNA4 & More
As expected, minutes ago Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.12 kernel as stable
As expected, minutes ago Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.12 kernel as stable. Linux 6.12 is heavy on the new features including to finally get the real-time "PREEMPT_RT" support across the finish line in the mainline tree, the sched_ext extensible scheduler code for leveraging eBPF was upstreamed, more AMD RDNA4 enablement work is now upstream ahead of the next-gen Radeon graphics cards launching, Xe2 graphics for Intel Lunar Lake and Battlemage is considered stable, and much more. Linus Torvalds has yet to issue his customary v6.12 announcement but those building the kernel from source can fetch it via Git.
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