Linux 7.0-rc4 has been released, approximately one month ahead of the stable release expected in mid-April. Key changes include fixes for hangs and a performance regression in mm/cid scheduler code present since Linux 6.19, an AMDGPU fix for idle/power consumption issues with RDNA4 GPUs after compute workloads, preparations for upcoming Rust language releases, and cpupower's systemd service now supporting EPP configuration. Linus Torvalds noted the release candidate is slightly larger than typical for this stage, attributing it possibly to the psychological effect of a new major version number. Linux 7.0 is expected to ship with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora 44.
Sort: