Subj : The 7.2 kernel has been released
To   : All
From : LWN.net
Date : Mon Aug 17 2026 06:40:09

The 7.2 kernel has been released.
Linus said:

Well, this last week of the release was - once again - bigger than
	I would have wished for, but hey, with the whole "new normal"
	thing, if I delayed releases for that reason we'd probably never
	have a release at all.

Significant features in this release include
common
attributes support in the bpf() system call,
cache-aware load balancing for the CPU
scheduler,
large-folio support in the Btrfs filesystem,
further swap subsystem improvements,
improvements to the Landlock security module,
support for block devices with inline encryption hardware via the dm-inlinecrypt
device-mapper target, and much more.
See the LWN merge window summaries
(part˙1, part˙2) and the KernelNewbies 7.2 page
for more information.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1088991/
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