Linux 6.3-rc5

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Apr 02, 2023,
updated Apr 02, 2023

This release continues to appear very normal and boring, which is just
how I like it. The commit count says that we've started calming down
right on schedule, and the diffstat looks normal too.


Of course, there may be something nasty still hiding, so you never
know, but at least for now we seem to be all set for a normal release
in three weeks.  Knock wood.


If the diffstat for rc4 week was a bit unusual in how drivers didn't
completely dominate, then rc5 makes up for it, with pretty much 75% of
the diff being drivers. And it's all the usual ones that dominate:
networking and gpu drivers make up for over half of it, and the rest
is a random mix of other stragglers (x86 platform drivers, input,
pinctrl, sound..).


Outside of drivers, it's various random stuff. Architecture fixes
(arm64 kvm, riscv, powerpc), filesystems (btrfs, cifs), core
networking, documentation and tooling.

Read on

Also: Kernel prepatch 6.3-rc5