This is good news. In my experiments with a bootable encrypted EBS volume I've wanted to use xts-aes on the volume, but none of the AKI kernels were new enough

This is good news. In my experiments with a bootable encrypted EBS volume I've wanted to use xts-aes on the volume, but none of the AKI kernels were new enough to support it. Now I can run a bleeding edge kernel, nice!