The 6.12 kernel has been released Linus has https://lwn.net/Articles/998490/ . "No strange surprises this last week, so we're sticking to the regular release schedule, and that obviously means that the merge window opens tomorrow.". Headline features in this release include: support for the <a href="https://developer.arm.com/documentation/102376/0200/Permission-indirection-and-permission-overlay-extensions" rel="nofollow">Arm permission overlay</a> extension, better compile-time control over which Spectre mitigations to employ, the https://lwn.net/Articles/990985/ , the realtime https://lwn.net/Articles/934415/ mechanism, more https://lwn.net/Articles/969062/ development, the https://lwn.net/Articles/974387/ , the https://lwn.net/Articles/979549/ work, https://lwn.net/Articles/979683/ in the security-module subsystem, the <a href="https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a430d95c5efa" rel="nofollow">integrity policy enforcement</a> security module, the ability to handle devices with a block size larger than the system page size in the XFS filesystem, and more. See the LWN merge-window summaries (https://lwn.net/Articles/990750/ for more details. https://lwn.net/Articles/997958/