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Linux 6.17-rc2 Released With Performance Fixes & More


Linux 6.17-rc2 is now available to facilitate the latest weekly testing of the Linux 6.17 kernel.

See our Linux 6.17 feature overview to learn more about this kernel that its working its way toward a stable release by early October. Anyway, most of the fixes in rc2 were to drivers - particularly block (although the biggest chunk of that was simply a removal of the drbd page pool code). Outside of drivers, it's filesystems (smb, xfs, erofs, btrfs), core networking (including some new selftests), and some architecture fixes (mainly x86)."

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