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Linux 7.2-rc7
posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 10, 2026
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Another week, another -rc.
I can't say that I'm exactly thrilled about the size of this all, but
it is what it is: the new normal with a lot of fixes, many of them due
to review by various AI tools.
And nothing looks particularly scary per se - it's just that there's a
lot here. Most of it is fairly small, although we have a couple of
larger diffs: s390/zcrypt fixes stand out in the diffstat, and so does
btrfs bringing back the fixup worker infrastructure. And some
netfilter ipset fixes.
But aside from a few places like that, most of this is just lots of
tiny fixes. It's pretty much spread all over - drivers (gpu, sound,
networking, you name it), filesystems, core networking, arch code..
I don't currently see any value in delaying the 7.2 release, so I
would expect that to happen next weekend unless something really bad
pops up.
Linus
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The 7.2-rc7 kernel prepatch is out for testing. It is still bigger than Linus would like, but he said nonetheless: "I don't currently see any value in delaying the 7.2 release, so I would expect that to happen next weekend unless something really bad pops up.
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