Linus has <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1077814/">released the 7.1 kernel</a>.
"<q>So it's only Sunday morning back home, but it's Sunday afternoon where
I am right now, so I'm doing the 7.1 release at the regular time -
just not in the regular timezone.</q>"
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Significant changes in 7.1 include
the removal of support for some old 486-based architectures,
some <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1059673/">new <tt>clone()</tt> flags</a> making
process management easier,
<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1062286/">BPF support</a> for io_uring,
zero-copy-I/O support for the <a
href="https://docs.kernel.org/block/ublk.html">ublk</a> user-space block
driver,
initial (incomplete) <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1056014/">sub-scheduler support</a>
in sched_ext,
more <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1057102/">swapping improvements</a>,
a <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1055062/#ntfs">completely rewritten NTFS
implementation</a>,
and much more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (<a
href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1067250/">part&#160;1</a>, <a
href="https://lwn.net/Articles/1067785/">part&#160;2</a>) for details.