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/