Today is Easter Monday, and we have just spent a few days of holidays that have certain similarities with those of Christmas. But in December there are more parties than just a birthday, and more people take a break. The one from last Christmas stopped the development of Linux and an eighth RC was needed for that version, but last night I arrive Linux 6.3-rc6 and everything seems to indicate that history will not repeat itself this April.
The point is that the holidays are not celebrated the same all over the world, even if they coincide more or less. Linus Torvalds mentioned "Easter Sunday" and then "before the festivities can begin..." so this Linux 6.3-rc6 could be 100% normal because many haven't started to relax yet. It is something that I do not know, but I do know that things They still look pretty "regular".
Linux 6.3 would arrive on April 23
It's Easter Sunday, which means we're all about to stuff ourselves with mämmi (right? You *have* your carton of mämmi ready to go, right?).
But before the holidays start, we have to take care of our business: Sunday is still another release day. Those mischievous (and biologically confusing) egg-laying rabbits shouldn't distract us from core development.
Things still look pretty regular – some subsystems may have been pointing to spring break as a possible cause of the slowdown, but nothing here seems all that unusual. Not even unusually slow.
This rc6 arrived a week after the rc5 in which the news was practically the same, and it has been the same since the moment they decided to eliminate a network driver to use another more appropriate one.
If everything continues as before, within two weeks, the April 23 the stable version of Linux 6.3 will arrive. If the size grows, there is a regression to fix or any kind of problem, this kernel version would still arrive in April, but already on the last day, the 30th.