Linux 7.2 Released
Linux kernel 7.2 has been released, featuring significant updates including cache-aware scheduling and improvements to MGLRU and sched_ext. The release cycle was noted for being particularly busy with bug fixes and performance enhancements.
Why it matters
As the core of most modern computing infrastructure, Linux kernel updates directly impact the performance and security of global technology systems.
Linux 7.2 was tagged and released this week, on the regular schedule.
This cycle was one of the busiest ever, only been beaten by 6.7. This is considered the “new normal”, given that the last 3 or 4 cycles had been pretty busy, especially regarding fixes. There’s some interesting achievements this cycle, like cache-aware scheduling , improvements on MGLRU, the concept of sub-schedulers for sched_ext (a good introduction on the topic by LWN ), automatic creation of multi-size transparent hugepages (also a good intro on LWN ) and more - check the LWN articles ( part 1 and part 2 ) for the full picture.
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