Apart from that famous network driver that replaced For another more appropriate weeks ago, the development of the next kernel version has been pretty regular. There have been neither sizes that exceeded the usual in a given week, nor regressions to correct or anything alarming. The news week after week has been simply, or rather, mostly that there has been a new release candidate, and the one that they gave us on Sunday afternoon yesterday was Linux 6.3-rc7.
Torvalds says that while there hasn't been much going on in the week of the Linux 6.3-rc7 release, there has been had to apply a late patch on cgroup cpuset, and had to spend more time on it than expected. Removing that, and as it has been happening in the last two months, nothing to highlight. The Finnish developer is hoping for another week of calm, which should lead to a nice release cycle.
Linux 6.3 should arrive next Sunday
There isn't really much here, though there is one last cgroup cpuset fix that's a bit more complicated than I might have liked at this point. But hey, even that's not exactly huge.
Other than the cgroup thing, everything is pretty normal, with driver updates mostly (gpu and networking in the lead as usual, but there are also crash fixes and minor noise elsewhere), with some arch updates, some self-tests, and some package fixes.
Hopefully we'll have another week of calm, and we'll have had a good release cycle without incident. I knock on wood.
Initially, the release of Linux 6.3 is scheduled for next Sunday day April 23. If a problem appears in these seven days that has not appeared in the last few weeks, it is likely that an eighth release candidate will have to be released, which is only discarded when it is decided to release the stable version. If so, although it does not seem likely, Linux 6.3 would still arrive in April, but already on the 30th.
Ubuntu 23.04 is coming this Thursday, so by no means would it be possible to use 6.3 by default. Lunar Lobster will use the 6.2 that is already available in the beta version, and if someone wants to upgrade to 6.3 they will have to do it on their own, for which it is recommended to use the tool Mainline.
When the stable version is released, we will publish an article with the most important news that comes along with this release.