Linus Torvalds released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel on June 14, with a rewritten NTFS implementation, new hardware support and removals affecting older x86 486-era systems. The release arrived on schedule after a cycle that Phoronix and XDA described as affected by a growing number of bugs reported by AI or LLM tools, with Torvalds saying he made the release at the regular time while traveling in a different time zone. Linux 7.1 adds Intel FRED support for Panther Lake and future CPUs, perfor...

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