Linux Kernel 6.13 Officially Released, This Is What’s New | Linux Today

Linux Kernel 6.13 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

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Marius Nestor
Jan 20, 2025

Highlights of Linux 6.13 include lazy preemption support to simplify kernel’s preemption logic, support for running Linux in protected virtual machines (a.k.a. realm) under the Arm CCA (Confidential Compute Architecture), user-space shadow stack support for AArch64 (ARM64) via Guarded Control Stack (GCS), support for 6-node sub-NUMA clustering on Intel, and split-lock detection support for AMD CPUs.

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Marius Nestor

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