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Linux 5.12-rc7

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Sunday 11th of April 2021 11:01:21 PM Filed under
Linux

Oh well. rc5 was big. rc6 was small. And now rc7 is big again. In
fact, it's the biggest rc7 (at least in number of commits) we've had
in the 5.x series.

It's mostly due to networking fixes (of which rc6 had none), and none
of them should be all that scary, but it's never great when we have
such a big rc. It's particularly annoying at the end of the release
window like this.

End result: I'm still waffling about the final 5.12 release.  The fact
that we have a big rc7 does make me think that I'll probably do an rc8
this time around. But it ends up depending a bit on how the upcoming
week goes, and if things are deathly quiet, I may end up deciding that
an rc8 doesn't really make sense.

So we'll see.

Anyway, networking (both core and drivers) is over half of the rc7
patch, with the rest being a fairly random collection of fixes all
over. We've got other driver updates (sound, rdma, scsi, usb..) some
fs fixes (io_uring, umount, btrfs, cifs, ocfs), minor arch fixes (arc,
arm, parisc, powerpc, s390, x86), and other misc fixes.

The shortlog is appended, although it's obviously not as nice and
small and readable as I'd have liked at this point in the release..

Please do test,

               Linus

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Also: Linux 5.12-rc7 Kernel Released - It's Big And Causing Some Concern

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Kernel prepatch 5.12-rc7

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 12th of April 2021 06:41:58 AM.
  • Kernel prepatch 5.12-rc7

    The 5.12-rc7 kernel prepatch is out; it's rather larger than Linus would have liked. "End result: I'm still waffling about the final 5.12 release. The fact that we have a big rc7 does make me think that I'll probably do an rc8 this time around. But it ends up depending a bit on how the upcoming week goes, and if things are deathly quiet, I may end up deciding that an rc8 doesn't really make sense."

Linux 5.12 release date may be delayed

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 12th of April 2021 05:43:32 PM.
  • Linux 5.12 release date may be delayed

    The final release of the next version of the Linux kernel might be pushed back by a week, following a larger than expected release candidate (RC).

    One of the largest RC releases, Linux kernel 5.12-rc7, is just the latest in a series of issues that have plagued the current release cycle.

    “I'm still waffling about the final 5.12 release. The fact that we have a big rc7 does make me think that I'll probably do an rc8 this time around,” wrote Linus Torvalds, the release manager of the mainline Linux kernel.

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