Linux 7.1 is right here, and it kills i486 assist, fixes Steam Deck audio, and overhauls NTFS

Effectively, it is that point as soon as once more. After Linux 7.1 hit the discharge candidate branches for testing, Linus Torvalds famous that, once more, extra bug fixes had been coming in than standard attributable to AI brokers discovering issues. It received to the purpose the place he was getting irritated with them clogging the safe channels. Thankfully, regardless of that, every little thing else went easily, and Linux 7.1 has now been launched for public obtain.

Linux 7.1 is now accessible for open-source vets to attempt for themselves

Us mere mortals are higher off ready for our fave distros to implement it

Linus Torvalds sent out a message asserting the discharge of Linux 7.1 on early Sunday. He often ships it within the afternoon, however attributable to his journey preparations, he was in a totally completely different time zone when the discharge occurred. He’ll be in yet one more time zone tomorrow, that means the timing for the merge window re-opening for Linux 7.2 may also be a bit of skewiff, however it ought to nonetheless occur.

Here is what Linus says about 7,1:

Anyway, potential slight hiccups within the merge window apart, the information at present is 7.1. Beneath is the shortlog for the final week – nothing notably attention-grabbing or scary stands out, which is appropriately. It is largely numerous smaller driver updates (gpu, networking, sound, misc) with some networking and hint tooling fixes. And random minor modifications elsewhere.

Please do preserve testing regardless of the discharge, and apologies upfront if my merge window latency goes to be a bit random the following few days. I briefly thought of simply extending the discharge for every week, however determined it wasn’t actually price it. I’ll come to remorse that call.

Should you’re not keen on digging by means of the patch notes to see what modified and what’s new, we have lined the three greatest modifications as they occurred prior to now:

Should you’re feeling courageous, head over to the Git page and seize 7.1 proper now. In any other case, cling tight to your fave distro to implement it.