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Linux 5.11-rc3

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 11th of January 2021 03:00:49 AM Filed under
Linux

So in the rc2 announcement notes I thought we might have a slow week
for rc3 as well due to people just coming back from vacations and it
taking some time for bug reports etc to start tricking in.

That turned out to be the incoherent ramblings of a crazy old man.

Because while the week started out fairly slow, you guys certainly
showed me, and the final rc3 ends up being on the bigger side as rc3s
go. Not "beating records" big, but certainly bigger than average. So
instead of some slow start due to the holidays, I think we saw some
pent-up fixes.

The changes are all over, with nothing in particular standing out.
About half the rc3 patch is drivers, with self-test updates (mostly
kvm and netfilter) being another healthy 15%. The rest is the usual
random mix: architecture updates (mostly x86 and arm64 and much of it
kvm-related), documentation, filesystem code (btrfs, io_uring),
networking, etc..

But there's nothing that looks particularly odd in there, and I think
the size is literally just about that rc2 being so small. So I think
on the whole everything looks normal for this release, and my theory
that maybe we'll need an extra release candidate just for the holiday
impact was just wrong.

Of course, we may end up with extra rc candidates if some nasty
development issue rears its ugly head later, but for now it all looks
fine.

So please go out and test, and report any issues you find,

            Linus

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Also: Linux 5.11-rc3 Released Following A Post-Holiday Ramp-Up

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Linus Torvalds slams....

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 11th of January 2021 11:30:25 AM.
  • Linus Torvalds slams....himself over latest Linux build

    While putting out the latest update of the Linux 5.11 release over the weekend, Linux’s head honcho, Linus Torvalds, sarcastically referred to himself as “a crazy old man.”

    In his previous dispatches, Torvalds had said he expected the first few Linux releases of the year to be small since most of the kernel developers would still be in vacation mode.

    However, that turned out not to be the case, leading to Torvalds referring to his fears in the earlier release as “incoherent ramblings of a crazy old man.”

    [...]

    Despite the size, Torvalds notes the changes in the release are fairly normal, admitting that his assumption that the development of Kernel 5.11 will require an extra release candidate to soak in the feared holiday impact “was just wrong.”

    This isn’t the first time Torvalds has erred in his predictions. Late last year he expressed concern about the fairly large size of the release candidates in the Linux 5.10 branch expecting things to get “uncomfortable” around the holiday season, which it didn’t.

Linus Torvalds rates his own words 'incoherent ramblings

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 11th of January 2021 11:57:12 AM.
  • Linus Torvalds rates his own words 'incoherent ramblings of a crazy old man'

    Linux lead Linus Torvalds has labelled his last pronouncement on the state of the kernel "the incoherent ramblings of a crazy old man."

    Torvalds' criticism of himself came after his prediction that the last seven days would be a slow time for kernel development.

    "So in the rc2 announcement notes I thought we might have a slow week for rc3 as well due to people just coming back from vacations and it taking some time for bug reports etc to start tricking [sic – Ed] in," he wrote.

    "That turned out to be the incoherent ramblings of a crazy old man.”

Kernel prepatch 5.11-rc3

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 11th of January 2021 04:02:36 PM.
  • Kernel prepatch 5.11-rc3

    The 5.11-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for testing. "So in the rc2 announcement notes I thought we might have a slow week for rc3 as well due to people just coming back from vacations and it taking some time for bug reports etc to start tricking in. That turned out to be the incoherent ramblings of a crazy old man."

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