Linux Kernel 7.0 Arrives: A Massive Overhaul for System Stability and Security

Linux Kernel 7.0 has been released (non-LTS) with several hundred patches focused on stability, driver and architecture fixes, and numerous security hardenings. The update addresses issues such as memory leaks, out-of-bounds writes, X.509 parsing flaws, buffer constraints, and hardware compatibility improvements across subsystems (e.g., e1000, ixgbe, nftables, af_unix), and Linus Torvalds has opened the merge window for 7.1.