Linux 7.2 was tagged and released this week, on the regular schedule. This cycle was one of the busiest ever, only been beaten by 6.7. This is considered the “new normal”, given that the last 3 or 4 cycles had been pretty busy, especially regarding fixes. There’s some interesting achievements this cycle, like cache-aware scheduling , improvements on MGLRU, the concept of sub-schedulers for sched_ext (a good introduction on the topic by LWN ), automatic creation of multi-size transparent hugepages (also a good intro on LWN ) and more - check the LWN articles ( part 1 and part 2 ) for the full picture. Igalia as usual had a good share of contributions, mainly the DRM scheduler fair policy, which had a regression reported at the 11th hour (see below), hence is present as opt-in. Other than that, we landed very nifty runtime power management for GPUs in the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5, improvements in sched_ext, futex, and general bugfixing. Let’s review the highlights!…