Linux 6.9-rc2
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays kernel rc releases.
Nor does Easter.
So here we are. Another week has passed, and rc2 is out. Nothing here look all that remarkable, and the fixes are fairly evenly spread out (so mostly drivers, because that's the bulk of the code).
Outside of the driver fixes (see shortlog below for details), we've got some more selftest work (mostly networking and bpf but also some random fixes), some architecture fixes (mostly x86), some filesystem work (xfs and btrfs) and random noise in other parts (mm, core kernel, networking, Kbuild..).
Nothing stands out to me or looks unusual.
Linus
Update
In LWN:
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Kernel prepatch 6.9-rc2
The 6.9-rc2 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays kernel rc releases. Nor does Easter.
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Some analysis behind no paywalls anymore:
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The rest of the 6.9 merge window
The 6.9-rc1 kernel prepatch was released on March 24, closing the merge window for this development cycle. By that time, 12,435 non-merge changesets had been merged into the mainline, making for a less-busy merge window than the last couple of kernel releases (but similar to the 12,492 seen for 6.5). Well over 7,000 of those changes were merged after the first-half merge-window summary was written, meaning that the latter part of the merge window brought many more interesting changes.