Linux 7.0 Ready For Release With Many Exciting Changes

Linux 7.0 is set for stable release on April 12, 2026. The major version bump was driven by Linus Torvalds' preference after x.19 rather than any specific feature milestone. Notable changes include Intel TSX defaulting to 'auto' mode for better out-of-the-box performance, scheduler and memory management optimizations benefiting AMD EPYC Turin, initial AMD Radeon and Intel graphics hardware enablement, XFS autonomous self-healing, improved EXT4 concurrent direct I/O write performance, a UDP network performance boost, Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Elite SoC support, and Rust 1.95 preparations.