Two weeks ago, Linus Torvalds He launched Linux 5.13, a version that will soon arrive on my laptop with Manjaro (not the one I have with Kubuntu) and that included new features such as support for Apple's M1. After a week in which they are dedicated to collecting applications, a few hours ago we Has delivered Linux 5.14-rc1, which looks like it will be a new installment with many improvements in terms of GPUs. In addition, it will also introduce a new secret memory.
memfd_secret it will be a new system call to create secret memory zones, but personally it strikes me more than it will improve the low latency in the USB driver. And there are many devices for audio recording that offer the possibility of getting the sound through USB, in addition to the typical old jack. We will publish the rest of the news in approximately 7 weeks.
Linux 5.14-rc1 is about average size
Overall, I don't think there are any big surprises here, and size wise it seems to be a pretty regular release. Hopefully that translates into a nice and smooth release cycle, but you never know. The last release was great, but everything was pretty quiet despite it, so size is not always the determining factor here.
Linux 5.14-rc1 is the first Release Candidate of a minimum of seven. If everything goes as expected, the stable version will arrive on August 29. Taking into account the deadlines, it is more than likely that this is the version that Ubuntu 21.10 Impish Indri will use, since it will be released on October 14, there is enough time to include 5.14 as a core and there will not be time to include the 5.15 that will arrive, according to my calculations, October 31st. As for Linux 5.14, if the time comes we want to install it on Hirsute Hippo we will have to do it on our own.