The 5.12 kernel has been released

Linus Torvalds has released the 5.12 kernel. "Thanks to everybody who made last week very calm indeed, which just makes me feel much happier about the final 5.12 release." Headline features in 5.12 include the removal of a number of obsolete, (mostly) 32-bit Arm subarchitectures, atomic instructions for BPF, conditional file lookups with LOOKUP_CACHED, support for zoned block devices in the Btrfs filesystem, threaded NAPI polling in the network stack, filesystem ID mapping, support for building the kernel with Clang link-time optimization, the KFENCE kernel-debugging tool, and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (part 1, part 2) and the (in-progress) KernelNewbies 5.12 page for more information.

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