Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.10 Release Candidate
It’s been two weeks since the merge window for Linux kernel 6.10 opened, after the release of Linux kernel 6.9, which is slowly but surely making its way into the stable software repositories of some of the most popular GNU/Linux distributions (hint: it already landed in Arch Linux and openSUSE Tumbleweed).
Therefore, Linux kernel 6.10’s merge window is now officially closed and the first Release Candidate is available for public testing for developers and those who want to get an early taste of the new features of the next major kernel release.
Update (by Roy)
LWN:
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Kernel prepatch 6.10-rc1
Linus has released 6.10-rc1 and closed the merge window for this release. For reasons that have not been spelled out, the codename for the release has been changed to "Baby Opossum Posse".
Torvalds:
Ok, the merge window is over, and 6.10-rc1 is tagged and pushed out.
This seems to be a regular-sized release, maybe even slightly on the smaller side. All the stats look fairly normal, but "normal" obviously means "much too big to post the shortlog", so below is - as always - just my "merge log" that gives an overview of who I've merged from with just the barest of descriptions.
We don't have any new filesystems, and the xfs online repair work means that the bcachefs fixes aren't even the biggest filesystem change any more. But all of that is dwarfed by all the usual driver updates (and, as is tradition, GPU drivers are in a massive lead, with networking a distant second and everything else is relatively small).
But we do have all the usual architecture updates, core cleanups and fixes, tooling and documentation updates.
Please - let the testing commence,
Linus
OSTechNix:
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Linus Torvalds Releases Linux Kernel 6.10-rc1
Linus Torvalds has announced the first release candidate (RC1) for the upcoming Linux kernel 6.10. This milestone marks the closure of the merge window, during which new features and improvements are integrated into the mainline kernel codebase.
Kernel 6.10 has been assigned the codename "Baby Opossum Posse", succeeding the previous codename "Hurr durr I'ma ninja sloth" that had been used since Linux 4.0.