Subj : Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc1
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From : LWN.net
Date : Mon Apr 27 2026 07:00:08

Kernel prepatch 7.1-rc1

Date:
Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:53:59 +0000

Description:
Linus has released 7.1-rc1 and closed the
merge window for this release. Things look fairly normal, although we do have 
a few different
	projects to cull some old hardware support to help minimize
	maintenance burden: phasing out i486 support (configs deleted, code
	deletions to follow) and independently starting to remove some
	really old networking hardware support, and removing some SoC
	support that never went anywhere. But we're more than making up for 
any stale code removal with all
	the new features and code added, so the diffstat still shows many
	more lines added than removed.

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