Linux 6.18-rc5 is out

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 10, 2025,
updated Nov 10, 2025

• Linux 6.18-rc5 [LWN.net]

  Things remain calm and small, and everything looks pretty normal. The
  rc5 diffstat is mostly drivers, with misc random noise in
  architectures (x86, some risc-v), tooling (mostly just a perf header
  file sync, some selftest fixes), some core networking, and minor
  filesystem fixes (xfs, smb, btrfs).
  
  
  There's a blip in io_uring, but that's mostly removing a new ABI that
  wasn't quite ready for prime-time.
  
  
  In other words: it all looks just the way I like it at this point:
  small and boring.
  
  
  Let's hope it stays that way,
  
  
                   Linus
  

• Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc5 [LWN.net]

  The 6.18-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. ""In other words: it all looks just the way I like it at this point: small and boring.""

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• Kernel prepatch 6.18-rc5

  The 6.18-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "In other words: it all looks just the way I like it at this point: small and boring."