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Linus has released the 5.9 kernel.
“Ok, so I’ll be honest – I had hoped for quite a bit fewer changes
this last week, but at the same time there doesn’t really seem to be
anything particularly scary in here. It’s just more commits and more lines
changed than I would have wished for.”

Some of the significant features in this release are:
x86 FSGSBASE support,
capacity awareness in the deadline
scheduler,
the close_range() system call,
proactive compaction in the
memory-management subsystem,
the rationalization of kernel-thread
priorities, and more.
See the KernelNewbies 5.9
page for more details.