Linux 5.13 Released With Apple M1 Bringup, Landlock, FreeSync HDMI + Much More
Linux 5.13 brings initial but still early support for the Apple M1 with basic support but not yet accelerated graphics and a lot more to iron out moving ahead. There are also new Linux 5.13 security features like the Landlock LSM, Clang CFI support, and optionally randomizing the kernel stack offset at each system call. There is also AMD fun this cycle around FreeSync HDMI support, initial Aldebaran bring-up, and more. Intel has more work on Alder Lake, a new cooling driver, and more discrete graphics bring-up. There are also other changes for Linux 5.13 around faster IO_uring, a generic USB display driver, and other new hardware enablement.
See the top features of Linux 5.13 or the complete Linux 5.13 feature overview.
See also: Linux 5.13 Release – Notable changes, Arm, MIPS and RISC-V architectures
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday June 28 2021, @09:11PM (5 children)
If Linux was willing to learn a single lesson from for-profit software, the foundation would know that major versions should be incremented every other week so it sounds like you're being left behind.
Who does a major version every 6 years?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 28 2021, @09:41PM
Poettering introduces disruptive changes regularly, just like Microsoft does.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by bart9h on Monday June 28 2021, @09:43PM (3 children)
any remaining semantic reasoning in kernel version numbers were thrown away when Linux decided to jump to 3.0
the numbers are now meaningless.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Monday June 28 2021, @11:46PM (2 children)
I have always maintained that the ideal time to move version numbers from 3 to 4 was when they dropped support for the 386. As it is, version 3.8.6 does not support the 386.
It's like they were and still are determined to refuse to tie the version numbers to anything meaningful. Might show their subservience to outside influence or something. Show that they don't have absolute freedom, to make the version numbers anything they want. Kernel devs are above version numbering!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 29 2021, @04:14AM
That's because he is. Linus always thought version numbers were mostly meaningless. He also hated being stuck on 2.6 forever, which also rendered that number meaningless and causing the 2.4/2.6 split. After that and a couple of other comparatively minor things happened, he just stopped caring and stopped pretending completely.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 29 2021, @04:55AM
The kernel is too broad reaching for something to be significant to everyone.
There are many architectures/developers/users that wouldn't notice that 386 support was removed but would have their own candidates for changes significant enough to justify a major version bump. (Mainline support for RasPi 4? Mainline support for SIFive?)
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 28 2021, @10:13PM (1 child)
you work on apple m1 support.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 29 2021, @06:07AM
Would you have said that 30 years ago, supposing you had been alive then, when Linus targeted the 386?
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 29 2021, @02:23PM
Linux was pretty exciting when it was new and major functionality was being added, but now it's like another Windows release to me. Churn.
I don't see how Linus keeps from falling asleep. Oh yeah, that multimillion dollar salary helps keep him awake. Glad we have Linux, but zzzzzzzz .....