Canonical has released Ubuntu 23.04 Beta for interested parties to download and try out. It comes with the Linux 6.2 kernel for newer hardware support and a brand-new desktop installer.
Linux 6.2 RSS
Ubuntu 23.04 will ship with Linux 6.2 instead of Linux 6.1. The newer kernel will likely be backported to Ubuntu 22.04 as part of a hardware enablement (HWE) update, increasing new hardware support.
Linux maintainers have pushed patches to Linux 6.1 and Linux 6.2 to address system stuttering on some AMD Ryzen hardware. These patches are just workarounds while AMD works on an actual solution.
The fTPM bug which was causing stuttering and freezing issues on AMD Ryzen CPUs in Windows 11 and Windows 10 has now started affecting Linux as well. The bug was triggered after a Linux 6.1 patch.
Linux users who run AMD Ryzen systems can be very happy today. Latest testing data shows that the newer Linux platform is showing very significant performance gains over the last few years.
Microsoft's exFAT file system is about to get much faster on Linux thanks to contributions from Sony. This is the second time this year that exFAT is looking at such a large performance uplift.