Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.5 Release Candidate
The two-week merge window, which opened with the release of Linux kernel 6.4 on June 25th, 2023, is now officially closed and the first Release Candidate is available for download for those of you who want to get an early taste of the next major release, Linux kernel 6.5.
The final release of Linux kernel 6.5 is expected at the end of August or early September 2023, which depends on how many Release Candidate (RC) milestones Linus Torvalds will announce until then. It will be out on August 27th if there will be only seven RCs or on September 3rd if eight RCs are announced.
Update (by Roy)
LWN:
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Kernel prepatch 6.5-rc1 [LWN.net]
Linus has released 6.5-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release.
The Register:
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Linus Torvalds calls for calm as bcachefs misses Linux 6.5
Linux kernel overseer Linus Torvalds has delivered the first release candidate for version 6.5 of the kernel, but warned this release may not go smoothly.
Torvalds's headline assessment of rc1 is "none of it looks hugely unusual."
"The biggest single mention probably goes to what wasn't merged, with the bcachefs pull request resulting in a long thread (we didn't hit a hundred emails yet, but it's not far away)."