Linux 6.11-rc5

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 26, 2024,
updated Aug 27, 2024

• LWN ☛ Kernel prepatch 6.11-rc5

  The 6.11-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for

  testing. "Other than the timing, there's not a whole lot unusual

  here. The diffstat looks fairly flat, which means 'mostly pretty small

  changes'." Linus Torvalds added a

  note that today marks the 33rd anniversary of the first Linux

  announcement; "A third of a century. And it *still* isn't ready".

• LWN ☛ Linux 6.11-rc5

  So I normally do the releases on a Sunday early afternoon, but I'm in
  an unusual timezone, and that would have been almost a full day
  earlier than usual. So I delayed things to the point where it was at
  least Sunday back home, even if not even remotely afternoon.
  
  
  Other than the timing, there's not a whole lot unusual here. The
  diffstat looks fairly flat, which means "mostly pretty small changes".
  There's a couple of bumps here and there, but nothing worrisome: the
  biggest of them is in fact just a selftest update. The bulk of the
  (non-selftest) patches are in drivers (networking and gpu dominating -
  as is tradition), with some filesystem updates (bcachefs, but also smb
  and erofs), and the rest being mostly core networking and some
  architecture updates.
  
  
  For details, see the appended shortlog, or just go dig even deeper in
  the git tree itself.
  
  
  So please do go forth and test, it all looks safe,
  
  
            Linus "famous last words" Torvalds
  

• LWN ☛ Linux 6.11-rc5

  On Sun, 25 Aug 2024 at 19:27, Linus Torvalds
  <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
  >
  > I delayed things to the point where it was at least Sunday back home,
  > even if not even remotely afternoon. [..]
  
  
  Oh, and I forgot to mention that there's something special about this
  Sunday: today, Aug 25th, is the 33th anniversary of the original
  public mention of Linux (although not using that name):
  
  
   "I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
    professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.  This has been brewing
    since april, and is starting to get ready. [..]"
  
  
  and while 33 years may not sound like a particularly round number, the
  "brewing since April" means that it was actually 33 and 1/3 years ago
  that it all started.
  
  
  A third of a century. And it *still* isn't ready. I really need to get
  my sh*t together..
  
  
             Linus
  

Update

A later arrival:

• Linux Kernel 6.11 RC5 Released: Steady Progress and Driver Improvements

  Linus Torvalds, the principal developer of GNU/Linux Kernel, announced the fifth release candidate (RC5) of the GNU/Linux Kernel version 6.11.