Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Posted by hanuca on Jun 14, 2026 6:03 PM EDT
9to5linux.com; By Marcus Nestor
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Linux kernel 7.1 is now available for download, as announced today by Linus Torvalds himself, featuring enhanced hardware support, filesystem and networking improvements, security enhancements, and many other changes.

Probably the biggest change of the Linux 7.1 kernel series is a new NTFS file system implementation, which has been in the works for the last 4 years, featuring full write support with delayed allocation, iomap, and folio integration to improve write performance, better stability, and a new suite of userspace utilities called ntfsprogs-plus.

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