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Linux 6.15-rc1 Released With New Performance Optimizations, Updated Zstd & New Hardware


The Linux 6.15 merge window has been capped off with the Linux 6.15-rc1 test kernel having been just released.

As expected, this was one of the bigger merge windows, almost certainly just because we had some pent-up development due to the previous releases being impacted by the holiday season. The stats look fairly normal, with - once again - another AMD GPU register header file drop adding a ton of lines and standing out. In the next few days I'll have up my lengthier Linux 6.15 feature overview but for now some of the key highlights worth mentioning include: - IO_uring network zero-copy receive support.

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