Bcachefs exits experimental status in new 'performance release'
More Rust, but more trouble with AI slop, too
bcachefs boss Kent Overstreet has announced version 1.38.6 of the Linux filesystem, dubbing it “the performance release” and declaring the project is no longer experimental.
The new code is ostensibly a relatively modest point release, but is noteworthy as it’s only the second release this year that project leader Kent Overstreet has described on his Patreon blog.
His latest post reveals he no longer considers the filesystem experimental. "Consider this the belated official announcement :)" he wrote, noting that he dropped the experimental tag some unspecified time ago.
Overstreet's last blog post was a very brief mention of the release of version 1.37 back in mid-March, and this was rather overshadowed by his announcement soon afterwards that his AI coding assistant PoC was conscious – and female.
Although the bcachefs Git repois sufficiently busy that it’s hard to...
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