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Linux 6.19 and 2025 Maintainers Summit at LWN
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LWN ☛ The rest of the 6.19 merge window
Linus Torvalds released 6.19-rc1 and closed the 6.19 merge window on December 14 (Japan time), after having pulled 12,314 non-merge commits into the mainline. Over 8,000 of those commits came in after our first 6.19 merge-window summary was written. The second part of the merge window was focused on drivers, but brought in a number of other changes as well.
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LWN ☛ The 2025 Maintainers Summit
Once each year, a small group of kernel maintainers meets to discuss important process-oriented concerns that may not lend themselves well to a public mailing-list discussion. The 2025 gathering was held on December 10 in Tokyo, Japan, alongside the Open Source Summit Japan and the Linux Plumbers Conference.
- Toward a policy for machine-learning tools in kernel development: what sort of role should large-language models play in the development process, and how should that process change, if at all, to accommodate them?
- Best practices for linux-next: how can the community's integration repository be made to work better?
- The state of the kernel Rust experiment: the discussion on removing the "experimental" label for Rust in the kernel and what comes next.
- Better development tools for the kernel: an update on work being done within and around kernel.org.
- Development-process discussions: what happens if Linus Torvalds disappears, and what other topics are developers concerned about?