Linux 7.0 has been officially released, with the major version bump driven by Linus Torvalds' preference to increment after reaching X.19 rather than any single landmark change. Key highlights include more Intel Nova Lake and Crescent Island accelerator enablement, new AMD graphics IP blocks, self-healing capabilities for the XFS filesystem, various performance optimizations, Intel TSX defaulting to auto mode, and standardized generic I/O error reporting. Last-minute fixes addressed bogus hardware errors on AMD Zen 3 processors and an out-of-bounds access vulnerability in X.509 certificate code that had existed for three years. Linux 7.0 will also power the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release. The Linux 7.1 merge window is now open.
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