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Linux 6.16-rc7
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LWN ☛ Linux 6.16-rc7
So last week started very quiet and that always makes me happy. Then on Thursday I started getting some updates, and I went "ok, so at least we have some networking fixes", but things otherwise still felt like this was going to be a tiny rc7.
And then Friday came along.
And the weekend.
And here we are, with a not inconsiderable rc7.
That said, the last few days I ended up getting a fair amount of pull requests, but pretty much all of them were tiny. A lot of single-fix pulls, and while rc7 isn't the tiny release it looked like mid-week, it's also not really any bigger than usual.
So there are fixes all over, they are all pretty small.
Nothing really stands out - the biggest patches in here are for some documentation and self-tests or tooling, not actual kernel code changes.
So unlike the week before, it all feels very trivial and I think we're in good shape. Knock wood,
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Neowin ☛ Linux 6.16-rc7 arrives: A quiet week ends with a slew of tiny fixes
Linus Torvalds has released the seventh release candidate of GNU/Linux 6.16. It's most likely going to be the last version before the stable release.
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LWN ☛ Kernel prepatch 6.16-rc7
Linus has released 6.16-rc7 for testing.