After stable Linux 5.15, they are now focusing on the future version that could arrive as a Christmas present. The Linux kernel 5.16 It will be a great step forward, and it would come loaded with improvements and news. One of those special versions that could give a lot to talk about. Here you can see all those improvements:
- Linux syscall enhancements to help gamers run Windows games on Linux with WINE or Proton.
- DisplayPort 2.0 for AMDGPU driver.
- AMDGPU's PSR (Panel Self Refresh) will be enabled by default.
- Cyan Skillfish support for AMD Navi 1x APU.
- AMDGPU USB4 DisplayPort tunneling added.
- NVDEC support for NVIDIA Tegra.
- Support for Intel PXP encryption.
- Code for Intel Alder Lake S integrated GPUs and other enhancements to them.
- Improvements also for Steam Deck.
- More extensible VirtIO GPU controller.
- Preparation for future notebooks with NVIDIA EC-driver.
- I / O optimizations for Linux 5.16.
- Introduction of the Realtek RTX89 802.11ax (WiFi 6) WiFi Controller.
- Vortex86 processor detection.
- Support for the new 2021 Apple Magic Keyboard.
- PCIe Driver for Apple Silicon (M1).
- DMA-BUF peer to peer support for the Habana Labs AI driver.
- Firmware and battery charging improvements on System76 laptops.
- Better support for HP OMEN laptops.
- Improvements in sensor support for ASUS motherboards.
- Linux 5.16 will also bring a latency improvement for USB audio.
- RISC-V hypervisor supported for KVM.
- AMD Linux Audio Dirvers.
- AMD PSF bit disabled for KVM guests.
- Update to improve performance with MGLRU (Multigenerational LRU), which has to do with the handling of memory pages.
- Performance gains also thanks to Zstd tweaks (lossless compression)
- Improvements in the Retpoline (return trampoline) code.
- In Linux 5.16 we will also see early preparation for FGKASLR support, which will improve kernel security.