Yesterday was Christmas Day, and Linus Torvalds "dressed up" as Santa Claus / Santa Claus to give us the last Release Candiadate of 2022. The last of the year coincides with a first, specifically Linux 6.2-rc1, and finished your mail taking the opportunity to congratulate Christmas and the new year that we are about to enter, not without ceasing to be politically correct, something that lately can be very well seen by many and quite the opposite by others.
And it is that, if all this congratulate christmas or other things happened at other times, it would look completely normal. But in today's world where even software codes are being changed to remove words like "slave," "blacklist," or even "kill," it's sobering. In any case, what he has said this time is «replace it, as appropriate, with the holiday you celebrate, if applicable«, and yes, more things are celebrated on these dates, so it is not out of place.
Linux 6.2 will arrive in February
Torvalds says that Linux 6.2 is bigger than usual, bigger than 6.1, partly because people haven't gone on vacation.
That being said, realistically I expect most people to be on vacation for at least another week, so I wouldn't be surprised if we end up with a final release delayed due to the season. But it's too early to worry about that yet, we'll just have to see how it goes.
Also, version 6.2 seems bigger (certainly bigger than 6.1). ). The summary below is, as usual, just my merge log: we have about 13.5k commits from ~1800 people in total in this merge window, which is actually not that far off the total size of the entire 6.1 6.1. But let's hope that despite the size, and despite the likely slow start to the post-merge window lull, we'll have a smooth launch.
Looking at the schedule, it is clear that Linux 6.2 will arrive in february, but the date will depend on whether an eighth RC is needed or not. It will be the version you will use Ubuntu 23.04.