Linux 6.11 Released
The 6.11 kernel was released by Linus Torvalds on September 15, 2024, featuring new io_uring operations, Rust support for block drivers, and enhancements like atomic writes and a vDSO for getrandom().
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The 6.11 kernel has been officially released by Linus Torvalds on September 15, 2024. The release announcement was made while Torvalds was traveling in Vienna. Key updates in this version include the introduction of new io_uring operations for the bind() and listen() functions, enhancements to nested bottom-half locking, and the capability to write to busy executable files. Additionally, the kernel now supports writing block drivers in Rust, atomic write operations in the block layer, a dedicated bucket slab allocator, and a vDSO implementation of getrandom(). For further details, users can refer to the LWN merge-window summaries.
- The 6.11 kernel was released on September 15, 2024.
- New features include io_uring operations for bind() and listen().
- The kernel supports writing block drivers in Rust.
- Enhancements include atomic write operations and a dedicated bucket slab allocator.
- The vDSO implementation of getrandom() is also included in this release.
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11 commentsAnyone else having similar experience? This is the first time something like that happened in a decade of using the latest stable kernel release (in my experience, it's actually been stable for all that time except for 6.10).
[0]: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/blog/linux-kernel-3-11-...
Edit: These two items are huge! support for writing block drivers in Rust, support for atomic write operations in the block layer,
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