8 days ago, Linus Torvalds launched the XNUMXth CR of the kernel version currently in development, and what came up was something that would have to be at a calmer point, but it was not. Yesterday, He launched Linux 5.10-rc5 And, when we all expected the news that should have arrived seven days ago, what the father of Linux tells us is that things have not improved.
Linux 5.10-rc5 is mostly a Release Candidate to fix bugs, but extra changes have been made, such as support for the AMD "Acturus" GPU is no longer experimental. In addition, they have also found that they have had to repair a regression, so this week has been more bumpy than expected, even considering that they were in tow of what was obtained last week.
Linux 5.10 is coming in December, but it's unclear when
The 5.10 candidates are stubbornly still quite large, although by rc5 we should see things start to calm down and shrink. There's nothing here that makes me particularly nervous, but in sheer numbers of confirmations, this is the biggest rc5 we've had in the 5.x series. On the number of lines of diffs too, for that matter. And I can't even claim it's because the old rcs were small and things were missing and we were catching up. Anyway, it changes everything, and aside from it being a bit more than I would like, it all seems pretty normal… We'll have to see how this release plays out, but I'm still hopeful that things will calm down. Otherwise, we get into awkward territory for the next release with the upcoming holiday season.
It is a bit surprising that, despite the fact that Torvalds assures that this is the largest rc5 of the entire 5.x series, he has not mentioned anything about the possibility of releasing an eighth rc for Linux 5.10, so the date scheduled for the Stable version release remains in the December 13. If it requires a little more work, it will arrive on the 20th of the same month.