Linux 6.19-rc5

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 13, 2026

Normal release, a couple of hours later than usual, but nothing
particularly odd going on the past week. As expected, we're pretty
much back to a normal schedule after the holidays, and the stats look
very regular, both in number of commits and in the patch.


Drivers dominate (being about two thirds of the rc patch), and gpu and
networking are the major  part of that. As is tradition. There's some
other driver updates too, but nothing that looks odd.


Outside of drivers it's the usual suspects: various filesystem fixes
(btrfs, nfsd, minor erofs fix and some generic vfs fixes), tooling
(mostly seltfests, and most of those are part of the networking and
gpu pulls), and some architecture fixes (arm64 and risc-v).


There's some other  minor fixes elsewhere, see the shortlog below for details.


Nothing looks strange, and this could be a perfectly normal rc5. I'm
still planning on doing an rc8 this release due to the holidays, but
it all feels pretty regular.


                Linus

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