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    "Linux 7.0 Release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures",
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  "textContent": "Linus Torvalds has just released Linux 7.0 on LKML: The last week of the release continued the same “lots of small fixes” trend, but it all really does seem pretty benign, so I’ve tagged the final 7.0 and pushed it out. I suspect it’s a lot of AI tool use that will keep finding corner cases for us for a while, so this may be the “new normal” at least for a while. Only time will tell. Anyway, this last week was a little bit of everything: networking (core and drivers), arch fixes, tooling and selftests, and various random fixes all over the place. Let’s keep testing, and obviously tomorrow the merge window for 7.1 opens. I already have four dozen pull requests pending – thank you to all the early people. Linus This follows the Linux 6.19 release about two months ago, which brought us PCIe link encryption and [...]\n\nThe post Linux 7.0 Release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures appeared first on CNX Software - Embedded Systems News.",
  "title": "Linux 7.0 Release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures"
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