Linux 5.19-rc2 arrives with the usual small size of the second RC

About 24 hours ago, Linus Torvalds released the second Release Candidate of the Linux kernel currently in development. Is about Linux 5.19-rc2, and in the release note we can read something similar to what we read in this phase, so everything is normal. It is also understandable, since in the first weeks of development is when they add the changes (commits) and it is from the third week when things to take into account begin to appear.

Thus, Linux 5.19-rc2 has a small footprint, and nothing to fear has been found in the week after the Linux release. first RC. Everything was expected to be like this, to the point that the Finnish developer updated his workspace, in which he spent a couple of days. Namely, everything has been so calm that he has allowed himself the luxury of paying attention to other things for about 48 hours.

A week later, Linux 5.19-rc2 is smaller than normal

And yes, since I was expecting the week of rc2 to be fairly uneventful, I did a system update on my workstation, and as a result spent a day or two fixing most of the fallout from the resulting compiler update to gcc-12. Some of them ended up being a bit heavy, and we're going to tweak things further. And some of it ended up being a buggy feature of the compiler, but it's being discussed as well and is limited to a single file on the 386-bit i32 side (and doesn't seem to lead to any real bad code, just overuse of the stack).

Linux 5.19-rc2 is the second Release Candidate in this series. The stable version will arrive on 24 July if only 7 are released and a week later, or two, if it doesn't come into shape in time. Ubuntu users interested in installing it will eventually have to do it on their own, using tools like Umki, formerly known as Ukuu.