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Linux 7.0-rc3
posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 09, 2026
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So -rc2 was big - some of the biggest in recent history - but I
suspected it was mainly due to random timing and just happenstance.
Not so.
Because rc3 is big too. Repeat after me: "some of the biggest in
recent history". It's bigger than rc2, which is admittedly not
unusual in itself, because rc2 tends to be pretty small as people take
a breather after the merge window and it takes a while to find issues.
But when rc2 was already fairly big, having rc3 then be even bigger
makes me think something is up.
Now, the likely "something" is probably just that 6.19 dragged out an
extra week with that rc8 release, so I'm not exactly worried. But I
most definitely hope things start calming down.
Now, admittedly one reason I don't worry too much is that a rather big
portion of rc3 is selftests (almost a fifth of the patch), and nothing
in the rest really looks particularly scary. Many of the commits in
here are trivial - small cleanups or adding hardware IDs or quirks
etc.
There's just more commits than is the norm at this point.
So it's still pretty early in the release cycle, and it just feels a
bit busier than I'd like. But nothing particularly stands out or looks
bad.
Please keep testing, and let's hope we're approaching the calming down
period and just haven't quite gotten there yet.
Linus
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Linus has released 7.0-rc3 for testing. "So it's still pretty early in the release cycle, and it just feels a bit busier than I'd like. But nothing particularly stands out or looks bad.
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