Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/903023/

Linus has released the 5.19 kernel.

On a personal note, the most interesting part here is that I did
the release (and am writing this) on an arm64 laptop. It’s
something I’ve been waiting for for a _loong_ time, and it’s
finally reality, thanks to the Asahi team. We’ve had arm64 hardware
around running Linux for a long time, but none of it has really
been usable as a development platform until now.

He also notes that the next kernel is likely to be 6.0.

Significant features in 5.19 include
Arm Scalable
Matrix Extension support,
a number of io_uring improvements,
BIG TCP support,
numerous random-number
generator improvements,
support for AMD’s Secure
Nested Paging and Intel’s Trusted
Domain Extensions mechanisms,
support for the Loongson “LoongArch” CPU architecture,
a new proactive
reclaim mechanism,
and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries
(part 1,
part 2) and the KernelNewbies 5.19 page
for more information.