Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

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Marcus Nestor
Jul 21, 2026

Probably the biggest change of the Linux 7.1 kernel series is a new NTFS file system implementation, which has been in the works for the last 4 years, featuring full write support with delayed allocation, iomap, and folio integration to improve write performance, better stability, and a new suite of userspace utilities called ntfsprogs-plus.

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Marcus Nestor

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