GNU/Linux kernel 6.2 (2023-02-19)

• https://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_6.2

Summary

This release includes:

• faster mitigration of the Retbleed vulnerability and a new FineIBT mitigation feature;

• Btrfs RAID5/6 and performance improvements,

• sysfs knobs that allow controlling block device writeback

• support for TCP Protective Load Balancing,

• improved Rust support,

• BPF features like User defined objects,

• the runtime verification tool, and some optional RCU power savings.

As always, there are many other features, new drivers, improvements and fixes.