Rilasciato Il kernel Linux 5.13 con il supporto per i Mac M1

Il nuovo kernel 5.13 rilasciato nella giornata di del 27  Giugno aggiunge il supporto per diversi chip basati sull’architettura ARM, incluso l’Apple M1. Ciò significa che gli utenti saranno in grado di eseguire Linux in modo nativo sui nuovi MacBook Air M1, MacBook Pro, Mac mini e iMac da 24 pollici.

Il nuovo Linux Kernel 5.13 offre funzionalità di sicurezza come Landlocked LSM, supporto Clang CFI e facoltativamente la randomizzazione dell’offset dello stack del kernel ad ogni chiamata di sistema. C’è anche il supporto HDMI FreeSync

L’annuncio del rilascio del kernel Linux 5.13 è stato fatto da Linus Torvalds questa domenica sul suo blog :

So we had quite the calm week since rc7, and I see no reason to delay
5.13. The shortlog for the week is tiny, with just 88 non-merge
commits (and a few of those are just reverts). It’s a fairly random
mix of fixes, and being so small I’d just suggest people scan the
appended shortlog for what happened.

Of course, if the last week was small and calm, 5.13 overall is
actually fairly large. In fact, it’s one of the bigger 5.x releases,
with over 16k commits (over 17k if you count merges), from over 2k
developers. But it’s a “big all over” kind of thing, not something
particular that stands out as particularly unusual. Some of the extra
size might just be because 5.12 had that extra rc week.

And with 5.13 out the door, that obviously means that the merge window
for 5.14 will be starting tomorrow. I already have a few pull requests
for it pending, but as usual, I’d ask people to give the final 5.13 at
least a quick test before moving on to the exciting new pending
stuff..