Linux 6.4-rc6 (UPDATED)
It's Sunday afternoon, and we all know what that means.
I don't think we've had anything hugely interesting happen the last week, and the whole 6.4 release really does feel like it's going fairly smoothly. Knock wood, famous last words, you know the drill.
The diffstat and the commit logs all looks fairly normal. We've got perhaps a bit more filesystem changes than usual, mostly due to some xfs fixes. But even that looks larger than it is - it's mostly due to code movement, not because of any fundamentally big changes per se.
There's some architecture fixes too, but most of that is just arm64 dts files.
And the bulk of things is driver updates, with gpu and networking being most noticeable. As is tradition. We have some other networking changes outside of drivers too.
For people interested in the nitty-gritty details, the shortlog is appended, but nothing there looks all that interesting. Which is obviously just how I like it. The interesting stuff should happen during the merge window, and the later release candidates should be as boring as possible.
Linus
UPDATE
LWN, but no comments yet:
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Kernel prepatch 6.4-rc6 [LWN.net]
The 6.4-rc6 kernel prepatch is out for testing.