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Linux 6.17-rc3
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Linux 6.17-rc3 [LWN.net]
'm still traveling for family reasons, so slightly unusual timing for rc3, but it's (barely) afternoon here on the East coast, so the usual Sunday afternoon schedule technically still holds.
As suspected, rc3 ends up being a bit larger than usual, to balance out the tiny rc2. Yes, 3.17 seems to be generally in pretty good shape, but nobody *really* believed that it was as good as that tiny rc2 would make it seem.
And while rc3 is on the larger side, it's by no means anything outrageously so, it's well within the normal parameters.
The diffstat looks fairly normal too: about half drivers (spread all over, we've got a bit of everything, but mellanox mlx5 stands out if you want to pick out any particular area). There's a fair chunk of added selftests and some more Rust support, and then a random collection of fixes all over: architecture code, filesystems, VM and core networking.
Anyway, things seem fairly normal for this phase in the release cycle, nothing stands out. Please keep testing,
Linus
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Kernel prepatch 6.17-rc3
Linus has released 6.17-rc3 (called "3.17-rc3" in the email, but the tag in the repository is correct) for testing. "
Anyway, things seem fairly normal for this phase in the release cycle, nothing stands out. Please keep testing,
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Neowin:
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Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.17-rc3, says it's a normal release
Linus Torvalds has published the third release candidate of Linux 6.17, calling it a fairly normal release. If things keep on like this, Linux 6.17 will be out in about one month from now.