Linux 6.18-rc3

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 27, 2025,
updated Oct 28, 2025

• Linux 6.18-rc3 [LWN.net]

  Things feel fairly normal, and in fact the numbers say it's been a bit
  calmer than usual, but that's likely just the usual fluctuation in
  pull request timing rather than anything else. The diffstat certainly
  is pretty short and flat, I think the biggest change is from some
  smbdirect fixes (both client and server side), the rest really looks
  pretty minimal.
  
  
  The high-level stats look very normal too, with half the patches being
  drivers (counting devicetree bindings there too), and the rest being
  pretty random and spread out. So we have the aforementioned smb fixes,
  some xfs fixes, and then random noise elsewhere. See the shortlog
  below for details.
  
  
             Linus
  

• Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc3 [LWN.net]

  Linus has released 6.18-rc3 for testing. ""Things feel fairly normal, and in fact the numbers say it's been a bit calmer than usual, but that's likely just the usual fluctuation in pull request timing rather than anything else"".

Update

Neowin:

• Linux 6.18-rc3 released and everything still looks normal

  Linus Torvalds has released the third release candidate of GNU/Linux 6.18. The good news is that everything looks normal, pointing to an on-time release of the stable version.