After two months of development, Linus Torvalds has released the Linux 5.19 kernel.
Linus Torvalds has unveiled the first stable release of the Linux 5.19 kernel. The new version of the Linux kernel was released on schedule two months after the release of the previous stable version of Linux 5.18.
Among the most notable changes: support for the LoongArch processor architecture, integration of “BIG TCP” patches, “on-demand” mode in fscache, removal of code to support the a.out format, the ability to use ZSTD to compress firmware, an interface for managing memory displacement from user space , improved reliability and performance of the pseudo-random number generator, support for Intel IFS (In-Field Scan), AMD SEV-SNP (Secure Nested Paging), Intel TDX (Trusted Domain Extensions) and ARM SME (Scalable Matrix Extension) extensions.
In the release, Linus Torvalds said that most likely the next kernel release will be assigned the number 6.0, since there are enough releases in the 5.x branch to change the first number in the version number.