Linux 7.2 was tagged and released this week, on the regular schedule. This cycle was one of the busiest ever, only been beaten by 6.7. This is considered the “new normal”, given that the last 3 or 4 cycles had been pretty busy, especially regarding fixes. There’s some interesting achievements this cycle, like cache-aware scheduling, improvements on MGLRU, the concept of sub-schedulers for sched_ext (a good introduction on the topic by LWN), automatic creation of multi-size transparent hugepages ...