The 7.1 kernel has been released

Linus has released the 7.1 kernel. ""So it's only Sunday morning back home, but it's Sunday afternoon where I am right now, so I'm doing the 7.1 release at the regular time - just not in the regular timezone.""

Significant changes in 7.1 include the removal of support for some old 486-based architectures, some new clone() flags making process management easier, BPF support for io_uring, zero-copy-I/O support for the ublk user-space block driver, initial (incomplete) sub-scheduler support in sched_ext, more swapping improvements, a completely rewritten NTFS implementation, and much more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) for details.