Post Syndicated from original https://lwn.net/Articles/910087/

Linus has released the 6.0 kernel as
expected.

So, as is hopefully clear to everybody, the major version number
change is more about me running out of fingers and toes than it is
about any big fundamental changes.

But of course there’s a lot of various changes in 6.0 – we’ve got
over 15k non-merge commits in there in total, after all, and as
such 6.0 is one of the bigger releases at least in numbers of
commits in a while.

Headline features in 6.0 include
a number of io_uring improvements including support for buffered writes to
XFS filesystems and zero-copy network
transmission,
an io_uring-based block driver mechanism,
the runtime verification subsystem,
and much more; see
the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1,
part 2) for more information.