Linux 6.3-rc7
Really not a lot in here, although there's a late cgroup cpuset fix that is a bit more involved than maybe I'd have liked at this point. But hey, even that isn't exactly huge.
Apart from the cgroup thing, it's all pretty normal, with m,ainly driver updates (gpu and networking leading the pack as usual, but there's block fixes and minor noise elsewhere too), with some arch updates, some selftests, and some packaging fixes.
Let's hope we have just one more calm week, and we'll have had a nice uneventful release cycle. Knock wood,
Linus
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Kernel prepatch 6.3-rc7
The 6.3-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. ""Let's hope we have just one more calm week, and we'll have had a nice uneventful release cycle. Knock wood"".
Simon Sharwood:
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Linux kernel 6.3 on track for debut next week after ‘nice uneventful release cycle’
Version 6.3 of the Linux kernel is on track to debut next week after what emperor penguin Linus Torvalds has described a “nice uneventful release cycle’”.
Torvalds used the epithet quoted above in his announcement that release candidate seven for version 6.3 of the kernel is now available for testing. The Finnish FOSS boss’s preference is for seven release candidates, followed by a full release. But versions 6.2 and 6.1 both needed an eighth release test edition.
Ahead of work commencing on version 6.3 Torvalds urged developers to start lodging their desired additions, and later thanked them for doing so as his queue of pull requests considerations was pleasingly busy once work on the new kernel cut commenced.
By the time release candidate one rolled debuted, Torvalds was effusive in his praise for kernel contributors’ efforts.
“So after several releases where the merge windows had something odd going on, we finally had just a regular ‘two weeks of just merge window’,” he wrote when announcing the first cut of version 6.3.