Linux 6.8-rc5

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 19, 2024

• Linux mailing lists ☛ Linux 6.8-rc5

• LWN ☛ Kernel prepatch 6.8-rc5

  The 6.8-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing.

• LWN ☛ Linux 6.8-rc5

  Ho humm..   Absolutely nothing stands out here, although I do wish
  things should have calmed down a bit more at this point in the release
  process.
  
  
  But while there's a bit more changes here than I would have wished
  for, there's not anything big or scary going on that I can see: just
  small things all over. In fact, a fair chunk of the changes are in the
  selftests, not kernel code itself (mainly kvm, but also some continued
  work on the networking side). The documentation subdirectory also
  stands out a bit, although that's at least partly due to Greg having
  worked on the whole CVE process and documenting that.
  
  
  The docs and selftests together account for about a quarter of the patch.
  
  
  But of course, most of the changes are in drivers. Sound, network
  drivers, and GPU driver fixes dominate the diffstat, but there's
  really a bit of everything in there - we've got HID, i2c, PCI, SCSI,
  staging, you name it.
  
  
  Outside of drivers, we've got some filesystem fixes (btrfs, zonefs,
  ceph, smb client, bcachefs) and some core networking updates. And
  minor arch updates.
  
  
  Anyway, I think (and hope) we'll start seeing things calm down, and
  the next few rc's are smaller.
  
  
  Please commence testing,
  
  
                   Linus