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Linux 6.17-rc1 Released With Many New Features But No Bcachefs Changes
Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.17-rc1 kernel a few hours ahead of his typical release regiment due to currently being in Europe
But for some quick highlights of the Linux 6.17 merge window: Intel Xe3 graphics for Panther Lake are no enabled by default, standardizing the keycode for the "Performance Boost" key on relevant laptops, the gconfig kernel configuration editor is updated to using GTK3, various file-system performance improvements, more Rust language additions, Attack Vector Controls makes it easier administering relevant CPU security mitigations, SR-IOV for Intel Battlemage graphics cards and multi-GPU prep work for Project Battlematrix, new ARM and RISC-V SoC support, and many other changes. There was a Bcachefs pull request submitted with new feature code but it wasn't merged and no comment by Linus Torvalds. Linux 6.17 stable should be out around the end of September or early October if an extra release candidate is warranted.
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