{"id":44637,"date":"2023-11-01T09:02:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T09:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=44637"},"modified":"2023-11-01T09:02:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T09:02:50","slug":"linux-6-6-released-as-the-latest-kernel-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2023\/11\/linux-6-6-released-as-the-latest-kernel-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 6.6 Released as the Latest Kernel Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nLinux Torvalds announced<\/a> the release of Kernel 6.6 this Monday.<\/p>\n

It’s the latest mainline kernel so far, that features EEVDF scheduler, and per-policy CPUFreq performance boost control.<\/p>\n

For Intel<\/strong>, the new kernel added Intel Shadow Stack support to prevent ROP attacks; Initial PECI support for 4th Gen Xeon Scalable “Sapphire Rapids” platforms; And, initial support for the Intel Lunar Lake VPU4.<\/p>\n

For old laptops with Intel 4th\/5th CPU, the kernel enabled Panel Self Refresh (PSR) support for power-savings.<\/p>\n

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For AMD<\/strong>, the kernel has Dynamic Boost Control support, Zen 5 temperature and EDAC support for AMD 1Ah processors, and FreeSync Panel Replay support with better power saving for upcoming AMD Ryzen laptops.<\/p>\n

The cpupower utility has been updated. Now it supports for adjusting new AMD P-State driver features, include changing the AMD P-State mode, and turbo-boost mode.<\/p>\n

For Linux system installed on EXT4<\/b> file partition, Kernel 6.6 will have 34% improvement with many concurrent writes and Apache Kafka 10% performance boost.<\/p>\n

Linux 6.6 has many new hardware support<\/b>, they include:<\/p>\n