Eight Great Features Of Linux 5.8
In any case, Linux 5.8 stable should be out either this Sunday or the following weekend on 9 August. After the 5.8 merge window in June we wrote the Linux 5.8 feature overview, but if you forgot about those changes, here is a shorter list looking at eight of the most prominent new features of this kernel:
- AMDGPU Trusted Memory Zone "TMZ" support for encrypted video memory. User-space patches are also out for Mesa. AMD Radeon hardware also has now soft recovery support for Navi, better handling of critical thermal faults for Radeon GPUs, and other updates.
- The AMD Energy driver was introduced recently and now mainlined for Linux 5.8 to provide AMD Zen / Zen 2 energy sensor access on Linux. There is also other AMD energy/power work that's been happening recently as well like around the RAPL support while the PowerCap support didn't make it into this kernel. Also on the AMD front is Ryzen 4000 "Renoir" temperature support.
- A block device back-end for the Pstore code that allows saving oops/panic messages to disk for systems lacking other persistent memory stores already supported.
- The F2FS file-system now supports LZO-RLE transparent file-system compression, complementing Zstd and other compression algorithms already supported.
- Initial support for booting IBM POWER10 processors.
- Intel Tiger Lake Thunderbolt support.
- Improved power-savings for systems with PCIe to PCI/PCI-X bridges.
- Exciting to developers is the Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer for helping to spot race conditions within the kernel and already has been used for finding many legitimate bugs.
See the full feature list for more details. After Linux 5.8 is released, it's on to the Linux 5.9 merge window.
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