The 7.1 kernel has been released (opens in new tab)

Linus has . "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." Significant changes in 7.1 include the removal of support for some old 486-based architectures, some clone() flags making process management easier, for io_uring, zero-copy-I/O support for the in sched_ext, more , a , and much more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (<a href=" <a href=" for details.