{"id":273170,"date":"2026-06-15T01:18:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/linux-7-1-is-here-and-it-kills-i486-support-fixes-steam-deck-audio-and-overhauls-ntfs\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T01:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T05:30:09","slug":"linux-7-1-is-here-and-it-kills-i486-support-fixes-steam-deck-audio-and-overhauls-ntfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/linux-7-1-is-here-and-it-kills-i486-support-fixes-steam-deck-audio-and-overhauls-ntfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux 7.1 is here, and it kills i486 support, fixes Steam Deck audio, and overhauls NTFS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/linux-71-is-here-and-it-kills-i486-support-fixes-steam-deck-audio-and-overhauls-ntfs\/\">Linux 7.1 is here, and it kills i486 support, fixes Steam Deck audio, and overhauls NTFS<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/linux-71-is-here-and-it-kills-i486-support-fixes-steam-deck-audio-and-overhauls-ntfs\/\">https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/linux-71-is-here-and-it-kills-i486-support-fixes-steam-deck-audio-and-overhauls-ntfs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-15 01:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.xda-developers.com\">www.xda-developers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s that time once again. After Linux 7.1 hit the release candidate branches for testing, Linus Torvalds noted that, again, more bug fixes were coming in than usual due to AI agents finding problems. It got to the point where he was getting annoyed with them clogging the secure channels. Fortunately, despite that, everything else went smoothly, and Linux 7.1 has now been released for public download.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"linux-7-1-is-now-available-for-open-source-vets-to-try-for-themselves\">\n                        Linux 7.1 is now available for open-source vets to try for themselves<br \/>\n               <\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"us-mere-mortals-are-better-off-waiting-for-our-fave-distros-to-implement-it\">\n            Us mere mortals are better off waiting for our fave distros to implement it<br \/>\n    <\/h3>\n<p>Linus Torvalds sent out a message announcing the release of Linux 7.1 on early Sunday. He usually ships it in the afternoon, but due to his travel arrangements, he was in a completely different time zone when the release happened. He&#8217;ll be in yet another time zone tomorrow, meaning the timing for the merge window re-opening for Linux 7.2 will also be a little skewiff, but it should still happen.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Linus says about 7,1:<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, possible slight hiccups in the merge window aside, the news today is 7.1. Below is the shortlog for the last week &#8211; nothing particularly interesting or scary stands out, which is as it should be. It&#8217;s mostly various smaller driver updates (gpu, networking, sound, misc) with some networking and trace tooling fixes. And random minor changes elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>                   &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/linux-71-is-here-and-it-kills-i486-support-fixes-steam-deck-audio-and-overhauls-ntfs\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux 7.1 is here, and it kills i486 support, fixes Steam Deck audio, and overhauls&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static0.xdaimages.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/wm\/2026\/06\/googlebook-benefit-linux.jpg?w=1600&h=900&fit=crop","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[99,71],"class_list":["post-273170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-arch-linux","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273172,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273170\/revisions\/273172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}