Linus Torvalds has announced the release of Linux 7.1 with a rewritten NTFS filesystem driver, battery reporting for Apple Silicon devices and a Steam Deck OLED audio fix. Other notable changes include improved power-management switching on AMD CPUs, performance gains for Intel Arc Battlemage graphics and, unusually, a big set of legacy hardware removals that saw over 140,000 lines of code dropped. The loss of legacy hardware drivers has a purpose: a leaner kernel is a more maintainable kernel, and its developers no longer carry the burden of having to fix security flaws found by AI models in obsolete drivers to support […]
Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/linux-7-1-kernel-features
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Source: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/linux-7-1-kernel-features
Aggregated via Linux News
