Linux 6.8-rc5
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LWN ☛ Kernel prepatch 6.8-rc5
The 6.8-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing.
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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