A significant set of storage-related changes, including enhancements to IO_uring, NVMe, and general block device code, have been merged into the Linux 7.2 kernel. These updates span various components, from file-systems to software RAID and the device mapper. Phoronix reported that "Linux 7.2 continues seeing a fair amount of storage-related changes from file-systems to the block device code itself, software RAID, the wonderful IO_uring interface, and more." This recent integration contributes to ongoing kernel development aimed at improving storage performance and capabilities within the upcoming 7.2 release.