Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/1077758/

Linus has released the 7.1 kernel.
“So it’s only Sunday morning back home, but it’s Sunday afternoon where
I am right now, so I’m doing the 7.1 release at the regular time –
just not in the regular timezone.”

Significant changes in 7.1 include
the removal of support for some old 486-based architectures,
some new clone() flags making
process management easier,
BPF support for io_uring,
zero-copy-I/O support for the ublk user-space block
driver,
initial (incomplete) sub-scheduler support
in sched_ext,
more swapping improvements,
a completely rewritten NTFS
implementation,
and much more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) for details.