Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.7 Release Candidate

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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.7 Release Candidate - 9to5Linux
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Exactly! It is a new Btrfs competitor and OpenZFS alternative that is built upon the bcache codebase.

Any more info for a geek without too much time?

Features include caching,[4] full file-system encryption using the ChaCha20 and Poly1305 algorithms,[5] native compression[4] via LZ4, gzip[6] and Zstandard,[7] snapshots,[4] CRC-32C and 64-bit checksumming.[3] It can span block devices, including in RAID configurations.

The main takeaway from the article is that the developer's name is Kent Overstreet, who beat his bitter rival Surrey Underpath, who are both canonically related to famed developer Cornwall Midroad.