Linux Kernel 5.19 Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Posted by hanuca on Aug 2, 2022 11:49 AM EDT
9to5Linux; By Marius Nestor
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Linus Torvalds announced today the release and general availability of the Linux 5.19 kernel series as a major branch that brings more new features, improved hardware support, and lots of bug and security fixes.

After being in development for more than two months, Linux kernel 5.19 is finally here and introduces support for ZSTD-compressed firmware files, support for AMD’s Secure Nested Paging feature, a new user-space API for managing MultiPath TCP (MPTCP) flows, initial support for Loongson’s “LoongArch” RISC ISA CPU architecture, as well as support for the ARM Scalable Matrix Extension (SME).

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