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Linux 6.14-rc1 Released With NTSYNC Completed, AMDXDNA Driver & Other Enhancements
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.14-rc1 to cap off the Linux 6.14 merge window.
Some of the Linux 6.14 changes that immediately stand out are many enhancements to the Rust infrastructure in making it more applicable for hosting Rust-written hardware drivers, the NTSYNC driver is now complete for better emulating Windows NT synchronization primitives to better handle Wine / Proton (Steam Play) Windows gaming on Linux, the AMDXDNA driver was merged for enabling Ryzen AI NPUs, Bcachefs file-system enhancements, more AMD RDNA4 graphics preparations, Intel THC was merged, uncached buffered I/O is an exciting optimization finally in mainline, support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite SoC, faster AMD CPU crypto performance, new AMD CPU features, and many scheduler improvements. The holidays clearly meant that people did less development than during a normal cycle, and that then shows up as a much smaller-than-average release. Let's hope that a small release also ends up meaning smooth sailing during the stabilization phase.
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