GoKawiilLinux kernel 7.3 released with record 18,765 commits
Linux kernel 7.3 has shipped, closing out the development cycle with 18,765 non-merge commits from 3,021 developers, including 807 first-time contributors. The release adds binfmt_misc extensions, group-scheduling improvements for large systems, a new failfs filesystem, the fchroot() system call, global per-CPU data for BPF programs, completion of the sched_ext subscheduler feature, working-set tracking for virtual machines, ntfs3 alternative data-stream support, and numerous SMB server improvements. The merge window for version 7.4 opens the following day.