From Nova Lake audio to autonomous XFS repairs and Zen 6 prep, this release covers a lot of ground.

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Linux Kernel 7.0 has been released with a broad set of improvements. Intel gains audio support for the standard Nova Lake variant, expanded temperature monitoring for Arc GPUs via HWMON, Panther Lake firmware support, and NTB driver support for Diamond Rapids Xeon. AMD benefits from early Zen 6 performance profiling support, KVM support for AMD ERAPS security in VMs, and groundwork for next-gen RDNA GPU hardware. Storage sees notable upgrades: XFS gains an autonomous self-healing daemon via xfs_healer, Btrfs adds direct I/O for large block sizes and an experimental remap-tree feature, and EXT4 improves concurrent direct I/O write performance. Other highlights include RISC-V user-space CFI support, WiFi 8 UHR groundwork, and Rust support being officially declared non-experimental in the kernel. This is not an LTS release; Linux 6.18 remains the stable long-term option.

Linux Kernel 7.0 is Out With Improvements Across the Board for Intel, AMD, and Storage