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"publishedAt": "2026-06-14T18:47:53.000Z",
"site": "https://lwn.net",
"tags": [
"released the 7.1 kernel",
"new clone() flags",
"BPF support",
"ublk",
"sub-scheduler support",
"swapping improvements",
"completely rewritten NTFS\nimplementation",
"part 1",
"part 2"
],
"textContent": "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.\"\"\n\nSignificant 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\nimplementation, and much more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) for details.",
"title": "The 7.1 kernel has been released"
}