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Linux 5.16-rc5

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 13th of December 2021 12:23:29 AM Filed under
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  • Linux 5.16-rc5
    So everything looks fairly normal. This rc5 is perhaps a bit bigger
than usual, but it's not like it's breaking any records. I blame
people trying to get stuff done before the holidays, and/or just
random timing effects.

Anyway, I do expect things to calm down over the next couple of weeks,
but we'll see.

As to rc5, the patch is dominated by drivers (network, sound, hid,
rdma, usb... and a lot of other random things) and selftest updates
(bpf, kvm and networking).

The rest is fairly random - filesystems (cifs, btrfs, tracefs), core
kernel and networking. Some fixups to the new damon virtual address
space monitoring code.

Shortlog appended.

Do give it a good testing - with the holidays coming up, things are
probably going to slow down both on the development and testing front,
and as a result I expect that I will also extend the rc series by
another week not because it's necessarily needed (too early to tell,
but doesn't feel that way), but simply because nobody will want to
open the next merge window immediately in the new year.

Anyway, that's the plan right now (based on previous years where we've
done the same), but let's see how this all goes.

                 Linus
  • Linux 5.16-rc5 Released - Cycle To Be Extended Due To The Holidays - Phoronix

    Linus Torvalds just released Linux 5.16-rc5 and while things are looking normal at this stage, he announced that this 5.16 cycle will drag on longer due to the Christmas / New Year's holidays.

    Torvalds noted in this evening's release announcement, "So everything looks fairly normal. This rc5 is perhaps a bit bigger than usual, but it's not like it's breaking any records. I blame people trying to get stuff done before the holidays, and/or just random timing effects. Anyway, I do expect things to calm down over the next couple of weeks, but we'll see. As to rc5, the patch is dominated by drivers (network, sound, hid, rdma, usb... and a lot of other random things) and selftest updates (bpf, kvm and networking). The rest is fairly random - filesystems (cifs, btrfs, tracefs), core kernel and networking. Some fixups to the new damon virtual address space monitoring code."

  • Kernel prepatch 5.16-rc5 [LWN.net]

    The 5.16-rc5 kernel prepatch is out for testing.

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Linux 5.16 is coming after a slight delay

Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 13th of December 2021 11:55:23 AM.
  • Linux 5.16 is coming after a slight delay, offers improved support for Surface devices

    Linus Torvalds today announced the availability of Linux kernel 5.16-rc5, a release candidate on the road to 5.16. The only roadblock between this release candidate and an official release is Santa Claus. Not literally, of course. Linus blames the delay on the holidays, causing development to slow down. The release window is expected to be pushed back one week, with Torvalds saying that...

Microsoft sites turn news about Linux into Microsoft news

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 13th of December 2021 09:49:11 PM.
  • Linux 5.16 will supposedly offer improved support for Surface devices

    Just in case you weren’t already aware, Linus Torvalds announced the availability of Linux kernel 5.16-rc5, which is nothing more but a release candidate before 5.16.

    This delay has been blamed on the holidays by Linus, saying that they caused development to slow down. Thus, the release window is expected to be pushed back at least one week.

    Judging by the announcement, we can expect the usual filesystem updates, general kernel additions, and improvements to networking.

Purism and Linux 5.16

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 14th of December 2021 12:06:45 AM.
  • Purism and Linux 5.16

    The Purism team is continuously working on improving the hardware and software support for the Librem 5. These innovations contribute directly to the mainline, upstream kernel so that the hardware can be supported as part of the development community in the future.

    Following up on our report for Linux 5.14 and 5.15 this summarizes the progress on mainline support for the Librem 5 phone and its development kit during the 5.16 development cycle. This summary is only about code flowing upstream.

    [...]

    During this round we contributed only 2 Reviewed-by: or Tested-by: tag to patches by other authors. This definitely leaves some room for improvement! Again we would like to thank everybody who reviewed our patches and helped us supporting the hardware in mainline Linux – especially Sakari and again Laurent for reviewing the camera driver and even adding the initial data for it to libcamera.

Simon Sharwood still covers Linux RCs with FUD

Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 14th of December 2021 10:43:10 PM.
  • Don't expect a new cut of Linux to ease your NYE hangovers

    The Register can at last reveal the answer to the question on everyone's lips: who would win a hypothetical fight between Santa Claus and Linus Torvalds?

    And the winner is … Santa! We have reached this decision based on Torvalds's regular state of the kernel post for this week, in which he rated the development process for version 5.16 of the Linux kernel as "fairly normal".

    "This rc5 is perhaps a bit bigger than usual, but it's not like it's breaking any records," Torvalds wrote. "I blame people trying to get stuff done before the holidays, and/or just random timing effects."

    Torvalds thinks the holidays will slow the release of this version of the kernel.

    "With the holidays coming up, things are probably going to slow down both on the development and testing front, and as a result I expect that I will also extend the rc series by another week," he added.

    That addition won't be because the extra rc is needed – although Torvalds left open the possibility of messes making it necessary – "but simply because nobody will want to open the next merge window immediately in the new year".

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