Post Syndicated from corbet original https://lwn.net/Articles/1088991/

The 7.2 kernel has been released.
Linus said:

Well, this last week of the release was – once again – bigger than
I would have wished for, but hey, with the whole “new normal”
thing, if I delayed releases for that reason we’d probably never
have a release at all.

Significant features in this release include
common
attributes support in the bpf() system call,
cache-aware load balancing for the CPU
scheduler,
large-folio support in the Btrfs filesystem,
further swap subsystem improvements,
improvements to the Landlock security module,
support for block devices with inline encryption hardware via the dm-inlinecrypt
device-mapper target, and much more.
See the LWN merge window summaries
(part 1, part 2) and the KernelNewbies 7.2 page
for more information.