Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/1031534/

Linus has released the 6.16 kernel:

It’s Sunday afternoon, and the release cycle has come to an end. Last
week was nice and calm, and there were no big show-stopper surprises
to keep us from the regular schedule, so I’ve tagged and pushed out
6.16 as planned.

Headline changes in this release include
enabling five-level page tables by default
on x86 systems,
a number of core-dump changes including
the ability to send core dumps to a socket,
the ability to create
pipes in io_uring,
atomic-write support in the XFS
filesystem,
the elimination of block-layer bounce
buffering,
a new DMA-mapping API,
an option to block file descriptors passed
in via Unix-domain sockets,
and more.

See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1,
part 2) and the KernelNewbies 6.16 page for
more information.