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Linux 6.19-rc1
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Linux 6.19-rc1
So it's Sunday afternoon in the part of the world where I am now, so if somebody was looking at trying to limbo under the merge window timing with one last pull request and is taken by surprise by the slightly unusual timing of the rc1 release, that failed.
Teaching moment, or random capricious acts? You be the judge.
Anyway, this merge window was slightly unusual in how we had a number of kernel maintainers on the road the last week due to the yearly maintainer summit, but also in how some of the core pull requests were about various conversions to expand on and use more of our automatic compiler cleanup infrastructure. That happened in several subsystems, but the VFS layer stands out.
And on the Rust front, we are now starting to see several actual drivers starting to take form. The "mainly preparation and infrastructure" phase is starting to become "actual driver and subsystems development".
That said, despite a few unusual patterns, the big picture really looks pretty normal: half the rc1 patch is driver updates (gpu, networking, media and sound stand out as big subsystems as usual, but there's pretty much everything in there). The rest is all over the map, with architecture updates, tooling, Rust support, tooling, documentation, and core kernel (mm, scheduler, networking) updates.
Below is my mergelog as a rough overview of what I've pulled and from who - for full details you have to go to the git tree.
Linus
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Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc1
Linus has released 6.19-rc1, perhaps a bit earlier than expected.
Marius:
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Linus Torvalds Announces First Linux Kernel 6.19 Release Candidate
Linus Torvalds announced the general availability of the first Release Candidate version of the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel series for public testing. Here’s what to expect!