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Linus Torvalds just released the first release candidate for Linux 6.9 that now marks the formal end of the two-week merge window.

Now that Linux 6.9-rc1 was released on Sunday to mark the end of the merge window, here is a look at all of the new features that have been merged for the Linux 6.9 kernel cycle. Linux 6.9 is onto the testing and bug-fixing stage for the next two months until Linux 6.9 is ready to make its stable debut around the middle of May.

Since last August AMD Linux engineers have been working on P-State Preferred Core support for the 'amd_pstate' driver so that this functionality can be leveraged under Linux for improved task placement.

More of AMD's Secure Encrypted Virtualization Secure Nested Paging (SEV-SNP) support for memory encrypted VMs is set to make it upstream for the Linux 6.9 kernel coming out toward the middle of the year.

The AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver for improved thermal/power/performance behavior under Linux works for Zen 2 and newer systems where the platform exposes ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Controls (CPPC) support