Adds ‘feature activation’ for Intel silicon, but Chipzilla still isn’t saying what that means
Linus Torvalds has released version 5.18 of the Linux kernel. The maintainer-in-chief’s post announcing the release was typical of those he made for each of the eight release candidates: this time around he found no nasty surprises, additions were neither major nor complex, and no glitches impacted the development process. Torvalds called for developers to “run boring old plain 5.18” before getting excited about the forthcoming version 5.19. That description is a little harsh on the new cut of the kernel, which offers notable additions such as the software-defined silicon code that verifies cryptographically signed licenses to enable dormant features in Intel silicon.
