Linux 6.19 Delays

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 19, 2026

• Neowin ☛ Linus Torvalds signals likely delay for final Linux 6.19 release [Ed: He wasted time learning proprietary Microsoft GitHub]

  Holiday disruptions and a surge in late code submissions mean Linux 6.19 is probably getting an extra week of testing before its official debut.

• LWN ☛ Kernel prepatch 6.19-rc6

  Linus has released 6.19-rc6 for testing. ""So we finally ended up with a slightly bigger rc than usual for this stage in the release cycle, but it's not _that_ big, and things still seem quite stable and civilized.""

• LWN ☛ Linux 6.19-rc6

  So we finally ended up with a slightly bigger rc than usual for this
  stage in the release cycle, but it's not _that_ big, and things still
  seem quite stable and civilized. IOW, I'm just chalking this all up to
  some pent-up work from the holidays, although it might also just be
  random fluctuations in the pull request timings. Things started out
  pretty calm the last week, and a lot of the work came in over the
  weekend. Which is not unusual, but it was perhaps even more pronounced
  than it sometimes is.
  
  
  Anyway, the slightly larger size does make me think that my plan to do
  an extra rc8 remains reasonable, even if the whole "nothing looks odd
  or scary" means that it probably isn't really a hard requirement.
  
  
  The diffstat looks pretty normal, with drivers (all together now:
  networking and gpu dominates) being about a third of it all, with the
  rest being all the usual suspects: a fair amount of selftests, some
  documentation, some arch updates, and various core kernel, mm and
  filesystem updates.
  
  
  Go forth and test, and report any issues you find. Thanks,
  
  
             Linus