Linux 6.10 Released, Whats New

Linus Torvalds announced the release and general availability of Linux 6.10. The latest kernel is stable and has lot of notable improvements. Below are few highlighted features.

Introduced mseal system call to protect a given virtual memory range against modifications

Added memprofiling, profiling infrastructure for the kernel. It can be used to monitor memory usage, track memory hotspots, detect memory leaks, identify memory regressions.  

Add support to replay kernel log on consoles via sysrq 

Introduce STM32 Firewall framework

Added support for KSZ switches

Upgraded Rust to 1.78.0 

Added ring_buffer memory mappings for mapping tracing ring buffers directly into user space

TPM bus encryption and integrity protection, and initial support for setting up PFCP (Packet Forwarding Control Protocol) filters

In EROFS file system, added support for Zstandard compression

In XFS file system, added support to Online repair of files and move orphan files to lost and found. Added support to atomic file content exchange

In Virtualization, introduced multi-queue and added support to device stats and normal shutdown

Introduced BPF API Framework, Added crypto kfuncs to make BPF programs able to utilize kernel crypto subsystem. Crypto operations made pluggable to avoid extensive growth of kernel when it's not needed. 

Lot of minor improvements done in Networking. Avoid sending too small packets, Increase the default TCP scaling ratio, Add support for Power over Ethernet (PoE)

Considerable amount of improvements done to support various Hardware architectures, Drivers, Power management.