Today, Linus Torvalds announced the release and general availability of Linux kernel 6.14, the latest stable kernel version that introduces several new features, fixes and improvements, better hardware support, and more. As usual, the new version source code, can be downloaded from kernel.org web site.

“So it’s early Monday morning (well – early for me, I’m not really a morning person), and I’d love to have some good excuse for why I didn’t do the 6.14 release yesterday on my regular Sunday afternoon release schedule,”

The list of news is quite huge and most related to performance/security improvements:

• GPU workload protection through cgroups was also merged. This prevents important GPU tasks from being terminated by properly ‘accounting’ GPU and CPU memory to the correct cgroup. This enables multiple GPU workloads to run concurrently without any undue snags.
• Support for uncached buffered I/O is another key Linux 6.14 feature that may add some pep to workloads by resolving issues where fast storage devices can quickly fill available RAM with unnecessary cached data.
• New AMD XDNA driver for AMD NPUs (Neural Processing Unit) integrated into new and upcoming AMD chips.
• Btrfs RAID1 read balancing support.
• Support for SELinux extended permissions.

For more information of kernel history see the Linux kernel version history