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Linux 7.0-rc3
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Linux 7.0-rc3
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 -
Kernel prepatch 7.0-rc3
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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Neowin:
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Linux 7.0 remains pretty volatile, we could end up with a longer cycle again
Linus Torvalds has said that the third release candidate of GNU/Linux 7.0 is even bigger than last week, and last week's was big. This could lead to a longer development cycle again.
Valnet:
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Linux 7.0-rc3 features some of the biggest changes in recent history, and that's not a good thing
Usually, when I hear that an update to an OS is one of the biggest changes in that OS's history, I get excited for it. After all, more changes mean more stuff, and more stuff means more things to enjoy when the update finally does arrive. However, there is a time when no changes are good changes, and that's during the Linux release candidate window.
The good news is that Linux 7.0 is progressing toward a release branch as it enters the third release candidate build (RC3). The bad news is, RC3 features a ton of changes, coming off the back of the already change-heavy RC2. And Linus is not happy.