Linux 6.17-rc7

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 22, 2025

• Linux 6.17-rc7

  Normal week, and unless something oidd happens this is the last rc before 6.17.
  
  
  Mixed random small changes all over with nothing really jumping out.
  It's all fairly spread out, with no obvious big concentration of fixes
  anywhere.
  
  
  There's obviously the usual driver side (gpu, networking and sound
  being most of it),  and the rest is all fairly random: selftests, arch
  fixes (mostly kvm-related), filesystems (mostly smb) and some core
  kernel, mm and net code.
  
  
  I don't think there's much of a pattern to any of it, but the shortlog
  is appended for people who want to look around.
  
  
  Let's keep the testing going, and we'll have the final 6.17 in a week,
  
  
                    Linus
  

• Kernel prepatch 6.17-rc7

  Linus has released 6.17-rc7 for testing. ""Let's keep the testing going, and we'll have the final 6.17 in a week"".