Linux kernel 6.14 brings AMD performance gains, enhanced game emulation with Wine and more

Linus Torvalds has announced the release of version 6.14 of the Linux kernel. This update introduces several key features and improvements, including Btrfs RAID1 read balancing support and a new NTSYNC subsystem designed to enhance game emulation with Wine. Additionally, it offers uncached buffered I/O support and a new accelerator driver for AMD XDNA Ryzen AI NPUs.

The release also includes DRM panic support for the AMDGPU driver, as well as reflink and reverse-mapping support for the XFS real-time device. Intel Clearwater Forest server support and SELinux extended permissions have been added. Users will benefit from FUSE support for io_uring, a new fsnotify file pre-access event type, and a cgroup controller for device memory.

Further enhancements include core energy counter support for AMD CPUs, power supply extensions to allow for additional properties from separate drivers, and support for T-Head vector extensions on RISC-V architectures. Raspberry Pi devices now have power management suspend/resume support.

Rolling release distro users and Fedora users will be among the first to receive this kernel upgrade. Other users will need to wait until their respective distributions incorporate it into a new release.