The 7.0 kernel has been released

Date:
Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:09:15 +0000

Description:
Linus has released the 7.0 kernel after a
busy nine-week development cycle. The last week of the release continued the same "lots of small
fixes" trend, but it all really does seem pretty benign, so I've
tagged the final 7.0 and pushed it out. I suspect it's a lot of AI tool use that will keep finding corner
cases for us for a while, so this may be the "new normal" at least
for a while. Only time will tell. Significant changes in this release include
the removal of the "experimental" status for Rust code,
a new filtering mechanism for io_uring
operations,
a switch to lazy preemption by default in
the CPU scheduler,
support for time-slice extension ,
the nullfs filesystem, self-healing support for the XFS
filesystem,
a number of improvements to the swap subsystem (described in this article and this one ),
general support for AccECN congestion
notification , and more.
See the LWN merge-window summaries ( part1 , part2 ) and the KernelNewbies
7.0 page for
more details.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1067279/


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