Linus Torvalds has introduced the discharge of Linux 6.15, albeit after a number of hour delay because of a final minute bug report which noticed a characteristic get turned off, for now. He mentioned that the final week of improvement seemed fairly regular with small fixes throughout, with drivers receiving the lion’s share of them. This week, enhancements have been added for an array of units together with HP ZBook laptops, and there have been software program enhancements for Bcachefs and io_uring.

The event of Linux 6.16 will start as we speak when the merge window opens, so it gained’t be lengthy till we begin getting launch candidates for that model. Issues might get off to a gradual begin on Monday, nonetheless, as a result of within the US it’s memorial day and folks could also be taking a break, however the merge window will nonetheless open – with Torvalds saying: “however just like the USPS, “neither snow nor rain nor warmth nor gloom of night time” – nor memorial day – stops the merge window.” Besides final 12 months, when an ice storm throughout winter did cease the merge window.

{Hardware} updates

When it comes to particular {hardware} assist talked about on this week’s log, we now have:

• HP ZBook laptops: Improved micmute LED performance.
• Lenovo Yoga Professional 7 14ASP10: A brand new quirk to deal with particular {hardware} habits.
• Dell Chrome platform laptops: Restoration of auto-mute mode.
• HP Agusta laptops: New assist for the CS35L41 HDA audio chip.
• Marvell uDPU: Definition of pinctrl state for alarm LEDs.
• Allwinner H6: A revert associated to its PMIC connection.
• Intel Arrow Lake U/H NPU: A repair for its PCI ID inside the energy administration controller.
• Fujitsu Lifebook S2110: Added assist for hotkeys.
• Rockchip RK3576: New clock definitions and a power-down workaround for its SDHCI controller.

Software program updates

On the software program aspect of issues, this week noticed Bcachefs get some updates associated to casefolding, bettering case-insensitive listing assist. For people who do not know, Bcachefs is a more moderen file system launched in 2015 for Linux that goals to compete with ZFS and Btrfs on options, whereas delivering the pace and efficiency of ext4 and XFS. As for casefolding, this can be a course of that converts your searches into lowercase when looking case-insensitive file methods, this week’s enhancements guarantee that is extra dependable.

There are enhancements to io_uring which might result in higher community efficiency, the reminiscence administration (mm) subsystem has acquired a bunch of updates that embrace fixes and efficiency enhancements, together with refinements for buffer dealing with and protections towards some reminiscence vulnerabilities.

If you wish to examine this week’s fixes intimately, you may try the entry over on LKML.