Development of Linux kernel 5.10 is in progress. It has been confirmed that this is a long term support release that will bring updated hardware support and other promised features.

Linux Kernel 5.10 will be a long term support release

Speaking at the “Ask the Expert” session of the Linux Foundation’s European Open Source Summit, Greg Kroah-Hartman, the main stable kernel maintainer, confirmed that Linux 5.10 will be the next LTS release.

Although there was some early speculation that 5.9 was an LTS release, Greg clarified that the last kernel release of the year is always an LTS release.

For now, the Linux kernel 5.4 series happens to be the latest LTS release, with a lot of improvements and hardware support. Also, given the development schedule, Linux Kernel 5.8 is currently the largest release, and the first candidate for Linux 5.10 is close, so there’s a lot to do.

Let’s take a look at some of the features and improvements in Linux kernel 5.10.

Linux kernel 5.10 features

Note: Linux kernel 5.10 is still in early development. Therefore, we will update the article regularly to be updated with the latest additions/features.

AMD Zen 3 processor support

The new Ryzen 5000 line is one of the biggest things to watch for in 2020. So, with the Linux kernel 5.10 release candidate, various new features for the Zen 3 processor are being rolled out.

Intel Rocket Lake support

I don’t expect Intel’s Rocket Lake chipset to ship in Q1 next year (2021). But it’s definitely good to see what Intel Rocket Lake is doing with Linux kernel 5.10, given Intel’s relentless squeeze on the 14nm process.

Radeon RX 6000 series open source drivers

Although we only reported this the day before the Big Navi reveal, the Radeon RX 6000 series is definitely going to be an impressive thing to compete with the NVIDIA RTX 3000 series.

Unless, of course, it has the same problems as the Vega or 5000 series.

It’s great to see the open source driver for the next generation Of Radeon Gpus in Linux kernel 5.10.

File system optimization and storage improvements

Phoronix reported that 5.10 also included file system optimizations and storage improvements. So, from this point of view, we should see some performance improvements.

Other improvements

No doubt, you should expect a lot of driver updates and hardware support with the new kernel.

For now, SoundBlaster AE-7 support, early support for NVIDIA Orin (AI processor) and Tiger Lake GPU improvements seem to be the main highlights.

A stable version of Linux kernel 5.10 should be released around mid-December. It will be supported for at least 2 years, but there will probably always be security and bug-fixing updates until 2026. So we’ll keep an eye on the development of the next Linux kernel 5.10 LTS release for anything exciting.

What do you think of the upcoming Linux kernel 5.10? Let us know what you think in the comments.

Via: itsfoss.com/kernel-5-10…

By Ankush Das (lujun9972

This article is originally compiled by LCTT and released in Linux China