Linux 6.16-rc2

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 16, 2025,
updated Jun 16, 2025

• Linux 6.16-rc2 [LWN.net]

  Pretty quiet week, with a pretty small rc2 as a result. That's not
  uncommon, and things tend to pick up at rc3, but this is admittedly
  even smaller than usual.
  
  
  It may be that people are taking a breather after a fairly sizable
  merge window, but it might also be seasonal, with Europe starting to
  see summer vacations... We'll see how this goes.
  
  
  The diffstat looks somewhat unusual, with a lot of one-liners with
  both ARC and pincontrol having (presumably independently) ended up
  doing some unrelated trivial cleanups.
  
  
  But even that is probably noticeable only because everything else is
  pretty small. That "everything else" is mostly network drivers (and
  bluetooth) and bcachefs, with some rust infrastructure and core
  networking changes thrown in.
  
  
  And, as always, just random smaller stuff all over. Shortlog appended
  for people who like to see the details.
  
  
              Linus
  

• Kernel prepatch 6.16-rc2 [LWN.net]

  Linus Torvalds has released 6.16-rc2, which is ""admittedly even smaller than usual"", though rc2 is not uncommonly one of the smaller release candidates.

Update

Neowin:

• Linux 6.16-rc2: Smaller than usual, but with notable network and bcachefs tweaks

  Linus Torvalds has released the second release candidate of the GNU/Linux 6.16 kernel. It brings a smaller set of changes than usual, but they're notable nonetheless.