Linux Kernel 6.17 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Linux Kernel 6.17 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

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Marius Nestor
Oct 14, 2025

Highlights of Linux 6.17 include support for ARM’s “Branch Record Buffer Extension” (BRBE), support for the AMD hardware feedback interface (HFI), Intel Wildcat Lake and Bartlett Lake-S support, initial support for the HEVC(H.265) and VP9 codecs in Qualcomm’s Iris decoder, which is supported by the Video 4 Linux (V4L2) driver.

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Marius Nestor

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