The 6.13 kernel has been released

Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/1005488/

Linus has released
the 6.13 kernel
. “So nothing horrible or unexpected happened last
week, so I’ve tagged and pushed out the final 6.13 release
.”

Significant features in this release include
the lazy preemption model for CPU
scheduling,
Arm64 Guarded
Control Stack
support,
the PIDFD_GET_INFO() operation,
multi-grain
file timestamps
,
beginning atomic write support for the ext4
and XFS filesystems,
the setxattrat(), getxattrat(), listxattrat(),
and removexattrat() system calls,
private
stacks
for BPF programs,
a
new mechanism
for adding guard pages to a memory mapping,
the removal of the reiserfs filesystem,
and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 6.13 page
for more information.