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Linux Kernel 6.16 Reaches EOL
It's that time again: A Linux kernel has reached its end of life (EOL), so pour a drink out for yet another kernel that served us well.
Greg Kroah-Hartman announced on the Kernel.org site (https://lwn.net/Articles/1041781) the following: "… this is the LAST 6.16.y kernel release, this branch is now end-of-life. Please move to the 6.17.y branch at this point in time."
Linux kernel 6.17 was released in September with features such as support for AMD's Hardware Feedback Interface (HFI) and Intel Panther Lake Xe3 graphics, attack vector controls for CPU mitigations, live patching for AArch64 systems, support for the Raspberry Pi 5 RP1 I/O chip, improvements for filesystems like ext4 and Btrfs, and networking enhancements such as gateway routing for the MCTP subsystem.
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