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With Linux 6.19-rc1 released, the merge window for Linux 6.19 has now concluded. Here is a summary of the interesting Linux 6.19 new features and changes with this kernel version.

Linux 6.19-rc1 was released on Sunday and will see weekly release candidates until Linux 6.19 stable is ready to debut around early February. Linux 6.19 introduces the Live update Orchestrator, adds PCIe link encryption and device authentication infrastructure, new drivers like ASUS Armoury and for Uniwill laptops, the DRM Color Pipeline API, a new console font, AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPus now default to the AMDGPU driver, initial support for the Tenstorrent Blackhole SoC, initial Intel Xe3P graphics enablement for Nova Lake and Crescent Island, a lot of ongoing Rust work, the constant catch-up around Apple Silicon hardware support, enabling of Microsoft C Extensions support in the kernel build by default, and Intel Xe VFIO driver merged. Plus a lot more.