Recent news: Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux kernel 6.8.
Modificări principale:
- New DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) driver for Intel Xe GPUs.
- Improvements to the P-State driver for Meteor Lake processors.
- Added audio support for Arrow Lake and Thunderbolt/USB4 support for Lunar Lake.
- P-State Preferred Core driver has been added.
- Support for future Zen 5 chips and RDNA 4 graphics has been implemented.
- Transition from FreeSync to VRR has been executed.
- Support for Raspberry Pi 5 has been added in the V3D DRM driver.
- Initial support for the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 mobile chip family is implemented.
Paleta de culori a fost modificată, oferind o separare mai contrastantă între text și fundal.
- Performance of the zswap mechanism has been optimized under low RAM conditions.
- For laptops based on Intel Core Ultra Mobile, performance during peak loads has been improved.
- Support for AMD WBRF technology has been added.
- The ability to write modules in Rust has been added for the LoongArch architecture.
- Support for Nintendo Switch Online controllers, Lenovo Legion Go, Adafruit Mini I2C, and Powkiddy X5/RK2023 consoles has been added, along with improved functionality for the Steam Deck controller.
- Support for ARM11 ARMv6K SMP processors has been discontinued.
- Support for audio systems used in NXP i.MX8m MICFIL, Qualcomm SM8250, AMD ACP5x, Intel Arrow Lake, SM8550, SM8650, and X1E80100 chips has been added.
Sursa: linux.org.ru
