Linux 6.12-rc4
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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,
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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:
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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.