ZDNet’s Steven Vaughan-Nichols shares what’s new in the release of Linux 6.5: The biggest news for servers — and cloud Linux users — is AMD Ryzen processors’ P-State support. This support should mean better performance and power use across CPU cores. Intel Alder Lake CPUs have also received improved load balancing in a related development. RISC-V architecture fans will be pleased to find Linux now has Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) support. ACPI is used in Linux and other operating systems for power management. It’s vital for laptops and other battery-powered systems.
For better security, people using virtual machines or sandboxes based on Usermode Linux for testing, or running multiple versions of Linux at once, now have Landlock support. Landock is a Linux Security Module that enables applications to sandbox themselves by selecting access rights to directories. It’s designed to be used by unprivileged processes while following the system