Linux 6.3-rc4 (UPDATED)
Things are looking pretty normal for this time of the release process. All the stats look very regular, and the diffstat mostly does too.
I say "mostly", just because we had a bunch of xfs fixes last week, which makes the diffstat skew that way more than usual. But even that is mainly for a self-test addition. The actual code changes are much smaller.
So instead of the usual 50+% drivers, the rc4 diffstat is about "one third drivers, one third filesystems, one third rest". Not all of the filesystem stuff is xfs, of course - we have cifs, btrfs and ksmbd fixes too.
On the driver side, it's a mix, but networking and gpu shows up as usual. With USB and thunderbolt fixes showing up, and the rest being fairly random.
And "the rest" is all the normal stuff. Self-tests, core networking, architecture updates, nothing odd there.
Let's hope things stay normal. And, as normal, testing and reporting issues is appreciated,
UPDATE
In LWN:
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Kernel prepatch 6.3-rc4 [LWN.net]
Linus has released 6.3-rc4 for testing. ""Things are looking pretty normal for this time of the release process.""