What's New in Linux 5.2?

'Linux 5.2 has been released. This release includes Sound Open
Firmware, a project that brings open source firmware to DSP audio
devices; open firmware for many Intel products is also included. This
release also improves the Pressure Stall Information resource
monitoring to make it usable by Android; the mount API has been
redesigned with new syscalls; the BFQ I/O scheduler has gained some
performance improvements; a new CLONE_PIDFD flag lets clone(2) return
pidfs usable by pidfd_send_signal(2); Ext4 has gained support for
case-insensitive name lookups; there is also a new device mapper
target that simulates a device that has failing sectors and/or read
failures; open source drivers for the ARM Mali t4xx and newer 6xx/7xx
have been added. Many other new drivers, features and changes can be
found in the changelog.

But there's more besides supporting "a handful of extra ARM-powered
single-board computers," according to CRN:

The biggest feature in 5.2 is probably support for Intel's forthcoming
Comet Lake architecture, which will power the tenth generation of its
Core desktop and mobile CPUs due. The new silicon is due to ship late
in 2019 and appear in products early the next year.

Linux 5.2 also includes many tweaks that improve its performance on laptops.'

-- source: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/19/07/13/0436246

Cheers, Peter
-- 
Peter Reutemann
Dept. of Computer Science
University of Waikato, NZ
+64 (7) 858-5174
http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/
http://www.data-mining.co.nz/
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