The 7.2 kernel has been released
Date:
Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:11:28 +0000
Description:
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
( part1 , part2 ) and the KernelNewbies 7.2 page for more information.
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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1088991/
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