Linux 6.12-rc4

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 20, 2024,
updated Oct 22, 2024

• Linux 6.12-rc4 [LWN.net]

  Hmm. I'm not happy with how big this is - it's probably far from the
  biggest rc4 ever, but it _is_ the biggest rc4 we've had in the 6.x
  series at least in number of commits.
  
  
  Yeah, yeah, it's quite likely to be due to just random timing of pull
  requests, where things have just happened to bunch up. Last week, rc3
  was on the smaller side, so maybe that's all it is. But still, it
  doesn't give me the warm and fuzzies. Let's hope next week is calm.
  
  
  That said, while we have a fair number of commits in here, I don't
  think there is anything _particularly_ scary going on. A lot of it
  really is just very small fixes, and the diffstat shows a lot of one-
  and few-liners (but there are certainly bigger things going on too -
  it's not *all* those).
  
  
  The changes are all over, with about a third being drivers (GPU and
  networking as always, but there really is a bit of everything in
  there). The rest is filesystems (bcachefs dominates, but smb and xfs
  show up too), some core kernel (scheduler, networking, bpf, tracing),
  and the usual random smattering all over (bpf settests show up, for
  example, some doc fixes, some arch fixes). Shortlog appended as
  always.
  
  
  Please give it a whirl,
  
  
               Linus
  

• Kernel prepatch 6.12-rc4

  Linus has released 6.12-rc4 for testing. ""I'm not happy with how big this is - it's probably far from the biggest rc4 ever, but it _is_ the biggest rc4 we've had in the 6.x series at least in number of commits.""

An update

Microsoft spinners:

• Linux 6.12's fourth release candidate didn't give Torvalds "the warm and fuzzies"

  Linux 6.12 is due out next month, and this weekend, we got the fourth release candidate.