Linux 6.18 is bringing a wide variety of new features and changes as we have been covering the past two weeks and prior to that with the interesting "-next" changes. Linux 6.18 is bringing a lot more Rust code, Intel USBIO drivers, various file-system improvements, continued Intel preparations for Wildcat Lake, the Rust-based Tyr Arm Mali DRM driver is merged, Rocket is added as the Rockchip NPU accelerator driver, haptic touchpad support was contributed by Google, various AMD Versal additions, DM-PCACHE is introduced as a persistant cache target, better handling in the network stack against DDoS attacks, SiFive Premier P550 mainline support, more Apple M2 SoC support upstreamed, KVM x86 CET virtualization, and much more. I will have up my usual Linux kernel feature overview for Linux 6.18 in the coming days on Phoronix.
There's a lot in store with Linux 6.18 and I will also be kicking off my Linux 6.18 kernel benchmarks in the days to come across different hardware.